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Horrified teammates wept as a player's leg bone snapped during one of the most closely watched U.S. college basketball games of the year.

 Louisville's Chane Behanan, foreground, and Wayne Blackshear (20) react to guard Kevin Ware's injury during the first half of the Midwest Regional final against Duke in the NCAA college basketball tournament,... (Associated Press)

 Trainers check on Louisville guard Kevin Ware (5) after an injury during the first half of the Midwest Regional final against Duke in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in... (Associated Press)

 Louisville's Wayne Blackshear (20) and Chane Behanan (21) react to Kevin Ware's injury during the first half of the Midwest Regional final in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31,... (Associated Press)

 "The bone's 6 inches (152 millimeters) out of his leg, and all he's yelling is, `Win the game, win the game,'" said Louisville coach Rick Pitino, who wiped away tears Sunday as national television quickly backed away from showing replays of Kevin Ware's nasty fall. "I've not seen that in my life."

 (hash)KevinWare shot to one of the top worldwide trending topics on Twitter. Video of the injury was posted on YouTube.

 And Ware's teammates went on to surge past Duke, 85-63, to win one of just four spots in the race to the national finals.

 Ware's right leg bent in such an awkward, frightening angle that CBS stopped showing replays. Team officials said the leg was broken in two places.

 Louisville star Russ Smith heard the break, and Chane Behanan, Ware's closest friend, couldn't believe what was happening.

 "The bone was literally out. I saw white, it was literally out," said Behanan, who collapsed to his hands and knees at the sight.

 The injury happened right in front of the team. Behanan looked as if he was going to be sick.

 "I've never seen anything like that," Behanan said. "I don't remember the last time I cried."

 Dr. Frederick Azar, a spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, said Ware "jumped pretty far horizontally and vertically, and he landed with a twist," which puts so much torsion and stress on the bones they could have just snapped.

 Louisville, the top overall seed in the tournament, went more than 3 minutes without scoring after the accident but regained its composure.

 "We won this for him," Pitino said.

 Behanan switched into Ware's No. 5 jersey near the end of the game.

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 Associated Press writer Michael Marot and AP Chief Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione contributed to this report. ||||| CLOSE Skip in Skip x Embed x Share Rick Pitino said Louisville wouldn't have been able to move forward from Kevin Ware's leg injury had Ware not told his team 12 times that he would be fine and pushed them to beat Duke. VPC

 Luke Hancock, right, comforts teammate Kevin Ware after Ware's injury Sunday. (Photo: Jamie Rhodes, USA TODAY Sports) Story Highlights Kevin Ware had successful surgery Sunday night

 Ware had his bone re-set, a rod inserted and his wound closed

 Ware hopes to rejoin his team in Atlanta to support them in the Final Four

 Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware underwent successful surgery Sunday night to repair the gruesome open fracture of his right tibia he suffered during the Cardinals' 85-63 win over Duke in the Midwest Regional final, and he is expected to remain in Indianapolis until at least Tuesday, Louisville announced.

 Ware had the bone reset, and a rod was inserted into his leg during the operation that lasted about two hours. The wound caused by the bone puncturing through his skin in his lower leg was closed.

 Louisville's late-night release said no timetable for recovery has been set, but the early prognosis from sports medicine director Fred Hina — given right after the game while Ware was in surgery — was that Ware is bound for a lengthy recovery, but the injury is not likely a career-ending one.

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 Hina was part of the team that stabilized Ware's injury on the court as he was removed on a stretcher.

 "It's an injury that needs to be dealt with in a swift fashion due to the fact that it was open, and there are infection concerns, and then obviously you need to stabilize that fracture," he said. "One thing you have to establish is, is there circulation below the fracture? Did he disrupt any arteries or veins? Once we establish that, it's stabilizing the fracture as tight as we can so that it doesn't move."

 Ware is hopeful he can return to Louisville after Tuesday, then join the Cardinals as they advance to the Final Four in Atlanta, his hometown.

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 CLOSE Skip in Skip x Embed x Share Kevin Ware talking was a 'calming influence' on the Louisville basketball team, said Cardinals point guard Peyton Siva.

 Louisville's team physician traveled with Ware in the ambulance to the hospital after the injury, and Hina and Ware's girlfriend, who was at the game, have been in contact with Ware's mother, who lives in Atlanta.

 Ware's mother planned to travel to see him soon, Hina said.

 Hina said Ware's recovery time would be based on the nature of the hardware that was inserted in his leg.

 "Because it was a weight-bearing bone and it was such a difficult injury, it will take a while," Hina said. "But he will play again."

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 Hina likened the injury to the season-ending fracture suffered by former Louisville running back Michael Bush in the 2006 season.

 Bush recovered to be chosen in the next year's NFL draft and currently plays for the Chicago Bears.

 "Once I spoke to the trainer at halftime and he told me it's Michael Bush's injury," Louisville coach Rick Pitino said. "He said it's going to take some time coach, but he'll be fine. Once I knew that, then I could regroup and just get them refocused. ... He's going to be fine. Now if this was a career-ending injury? (But) we all know how good Michael Bush is right now, and it's a Michael Bush injury."

 Hina said he's seen similar severe fractures, but there's no getting used to seeing injuries so gruesome.

 "It never gets more palatable," he said.

 Bush posted on Twitter that he cried after seeing Ware's injury.

 "I feel so bad," he wrote. "Flashback of myself."

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 Dr. Craig Roberts, chairman of Louisville's department of orthopedic surgery, was coming out of an operation when he caught the replay of Ware's injury on TV.

 "It was very dramatic, very deformed," Roberts said. "I hate to use the word grisly, but it brought me back to Joe Theismann," he said, referring to the professional football player whose compound fracture in 1985 ended his career.

 An open fracture could have been caused simply by the amount of force and the angle at which Ware landed after leaping to challenge a Duke shot, Roberts said.

 "It looks like what we call a bending fracture — like snapping a pencil with your finger," he said. "There was a significant amount of force, and the angle looked about right."

 Roberts said open fractures of this sort would be treated by intravenous antibiotics and surgery to implant a metal rod within eight hours of the injury. He added that Methodist Hospital "has a very strong group of orthopedic surgeons."

 Dr. Tony Wanich, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, said Ware's injury was extremely unusual given the circumstance, and that such severe fractures are usually seen in car crashes.

 In such an injury, Roberts said that in the "best-case scenario," a patient would begin to show signs of healing within 8-12 weeks. "With ... physical therapy, top-notch rehab, he may actually be doing quite well by three months or so," he said. "From there, it's a matter of muscle rehabilitation, strengthening, sport-specific rehab."

 Dr. Robin West, a Pittsburgh Steelers orthopedic surgeon, said that typically, the best-case scenario to return from such a compound fracture is 6-8 months.

 But she said the fact that Ware's bone broke through his skin will likely add to his recovery time.

 "The blood supply gets cut off to the bone, and it's an open system," West said. "There can be a pretty significant rate of infection, and the blood supply is worse, so the healing is slower."

 Wanich said it will be important to monitor Ware closely during the 24 hours after surgery because of the risk of infection and blood flow problems. Roberts said that possible complications could include slow healing of the bones or soft tissues.

 "Sometimes the wound itself is so injured that over time the skin and muscle can die," he added. "The healing itself is sometimes a little delayed on account of its being an open fracture (with) high energy."

 As for returning to the sport, Roberts thought Ware's prognosis was good. "There's a very high likelihood that we'll see him play again," he said.

 Steven Jones, Matthew Frassica and Adam Himmelsbach write for the Louisville Courier-Journal, a Gannett partner property.

 PHOTOS: THE BEST PHOTOS FROM THE ELITE 8 ||||| In many ways, it had been an exemplary few days for the NCAA and its signature basketball tournament—a weekend that put the madness back in March.

 On Friday, Michigan and star guard Trey Burke completed an epic comeback over Kansas. On Saturday, Cinderella team Wichita State crashed the Final Four.

 But for many people watching the Louisville-Duke game unfold, a disturbing injury to Louisville guard Kevin Ware illustrated a different sort of madness: the continued lack of compensation for the players who make the tournament so special.

 "Pray for [Ware]," columnist Dave Zirin tweeted. "There is no safety-net for the injured NCAA athlete."

 Injury among worst seen on TV

 Ware's broken leg—"about the most gruesome injury I've seen in a basketball game," bemoaned analyst Seth Davis—came on a routine play, as he landed awkwardly after trying to block a shot by Duke's Tyler Thornton.

 And evoking memories of a similar, career-ending injury to the NFL's Joe Theismann, Ware snapped his leg in two places, with his tibia bone sticking six inches out of the skin. Ware will miss at least a year, Louisville coach Rick Pitino said after the game, and it's fair to wonder if he'll ever play high-level basketball again.

 The injury was so graphic that it prompted an immediate debate over propriety: Should the footage even be shown? And while websites like Deadspin and BuzzFeed posted links to the video, others (including CBS, which was televising the game) elected to halt replays.

 Few protections for NCAA athletes

 But the most important discussion returned to the questionable morality of college athletics: Were Ware's services being exploited by the NCAA?

 Keep in mind:

 Ware was playing for no pay beyond an athletic scholarship to Louisville—a scholarship that's often only renewed at a coach's discretion.

 While Ware's surgery will be covered by Louisville, he has no recompense to file for worker's compensation. Under the NCAA's deliberately ambiguous terminology of "student-athletes," the organization is shielded from such claims.

 While most college sports programs are money-losers, the NCAA's annual TV ad revenue from March Madness exceeds $1 billion. And Louisville is the most profitable college basketball team in the nation.

 What happens next--for Ware and the NCAA

 Entering Sunday, Ware was a fringe NBA prospect—ranked 76th among all college sophomores by one service—far from a lock to make that league, but likely to play professionally at some point.

 Ware's injury raises serious questions about his ability to do exactly that.

 Under a best-case scenario, Ware recovers after several years of rehab, but suffers some loss to future earnings.

 Consider the case of Michael Bush, a former Louisville running back who suffered a similar injury in 2006. Bush was a projected top-10 pick in the 2007 NFL draft; after snapping his leg, he fell to the 100th pick and lost out on a windfall of $40 million or so.

 Under a worst-case scenario, Ware deals with continued medical burdens—and as Salon's David Sirota points out, ends up getting stuck with the bill.

 Sunday's episode ensures that the NCAA will face pressure from Zirin, Sirota, and other usual suspects. Taylor Branch's seminal article on "The Shame of College Sports" will be passed around again.

 But it's important to remember that Ware's broken leg was unusually terrible, and unusually high-profile. The debate will fade as the next round of games resume.

 Meanwhile, every season of college football or basketball sees hundreds of lesser injuries, to lesser players, on lesser stages, with no compensation for the afflicted.

 Perhaps it's madness that we're not more mad about that.

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– Louisville guard Kevin Ware is recovering from what commentators say is the most horrific injury they've ever seen in a basketball game. Ware snapped his right leg in two places as he landed from a jump in the first half of the Cardinals' Midwest Regional final against Duke, leaving his broken tibia bone sticking six inches out of his skin, USA Today reports. Surgery last night was successful, but Ware is expected to be out for at least a year. Ware's teammates went on to beat Duke, 85-63. Before Ware was stretchered out of the stadium, he called his teammates over and urged them to win the game. "The bone's 6 inches out of his leg, and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game,'" Louisville coach Rick Pitino tells the AP. "I've not seen that in my life." Louisville will pay for Ware's surgery, but he was playing for no pay beyond a scholarship and NCAA regulations shield the organization from compensation claims, Forbes notes.


Jeremy Stoppelman, co-founder and CEO of yelp Inc., San Francisco, California, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing called ''The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?'' on Capitol Hill, September 21, 2011.

 (Reuters) - Consumer review website Yelp Inc made a sparkling market debut on Friday, buoyed by optimism ahead of Facebook's public listing and hopes for further successful public listings by Internet companies down the road.

 Yelp's stock closed 64 percent higher at $24.58, a day after Yelp priced its IPO at $15 a share - above its indicated range of $12 to $14.

 At Friday's closing price, the company is worth about $1.47 billion - about 17 times its 2011 revenue.

 "If you look at it, there's been a very high trading volume, much higher than normal," said Scott Rostan, a former Merrill Lynch analyst who founded Training The Street, an investment banking school in New York.

 Yelp could be benefitting from the optimism about Facebook's upcoming IPO, he added. "Investors are getting a little excited; there's a social media momentum."

 Yelp's stellar debut follows those of other Internet sensations like LinkedIn Corp, Groupon Inc and Zillow Inc. But while those stocks made large first-day gains, they have since declined.

 Groupon stock's soared as much as 56 percent on its opening day, but has since fallen below its offer price of $20.

 Like Yelp, Groupon is losing money. Yelp generates revenue by selling advertising on its sites, where it has more than 25 million reviews of a range of local businesses and services - from plumbers and shoe-repair shops to restaurants and nightlife options.

 Yelp also competes with Angie's List, which unlike Yelp charges for memberships and whose stock fell 5.4 percent on Friday.

 "Angie's List charges for memberships. That will prevent growth. It can maybe grow to 2 million memberships, but there's a finite number of people who want to pay to access this content," Sameet Sinha, an analyst at B. Riley & Co, said.

 "Their unique visitor growth accelerated in the past year and they are forecasting solid growth over the next few years," Sinha said.

 The company, however, faces stiff competition from Facebook; Google Inc, through its recent buy of restaurant reviewer Zagat; and others like Groupon and Angie's List.

 Stoppelman told CNBC that he was not fazed by competition from the likes of Google.

 "That's a potentially lucrative market, which could be interesting for some big companies such as Google, Facebook to muscle in," Rostan said.

 "It could make Yelp a takeover candidate. As a public company it is a little harder to turn down an offer and it could be a $2 billion morsel for an established company to enter that market," he said.

 According to media reports, Yelp has rejected approaches by Google and Yahoo in the past.

 AMAZON OF LOCAL ADVERTISING

 The San Francisco-based company was started eight years ago in 2004 by former PayPal engineers Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons, when Stoppelman needed a doctor and online searches turned up only generic lists on health insurance websites.

 Stoppelman, a computer engineer by training, told CNBC he wanted his company to become the Amazon.com Inc of local advertising.

 "We're just scratching the surface of local advertising," Stoppelman said. "It's an enormous market."

 Yelp had 66 million unique visitors and was used in 5.7 million unique mobile devices on a monthly average basis in its latest quarter. It was active in 46 markets in the United States and 25 internationally at the end of last year.

 But the company has incurred losses since inception, and had an accumulated debt of about $41.2 million as of December 31.

 In 2011, Yelp recorded a loss of about $17 million but saw revenue jump 74 percent to $83.3 million.

 Like a slew of recent tech and Internet offerings and the upcoming Facebook IPO, Yelp will have two classes of stock - class A shares worth one vote each and class B shares with 10 votes each.

 This structure is seen by many as a method to keep voting power restricted to the major stockholders as the outstanding class B common stock will represent about 98.7 percent of voting power following the offering.

 Scott said this may be the time for more Internet companies to seek a public listing.

 "In the IPO market there's a window of opportunity, when it's open you better rush through it before it closes," Rostan said, adding that LinkedIn's IPO in May last year created a window until about August.

 "There needs to be some kind of event to open it (the window) and Facebook might be that event," he added.

 B. Riley's Sinha noted that Yelp was a good investment ahead of Facebook.

 "In general, crowd sourcing, social and mobile are the key buzz words for investors and Yelp hits them all. Before Facebook comes along, this is a good social and mobile play for investors," Sinha said.

 Goldman Sachs is the lead bookrunning manager for the offering, while Citigroup and Jefferies acted as joint bookrunning managers.

 (Reporting by Aman Shah, Tanya Agrawal in Bangalore and Alistair Barr in San Francisco.; Editing by Supriya Kurane, Lisa Von Ahn and Richard Chang) ||||| Yelp's popular online reviews guide the hungry to the best restaurants, the thirsty to the friendliest bars and the flabby to the toughest personal trainers. But, on the eve of its initial public offering, the eight-year-old, still unprofitable company has yet to convince analysts of its long-term prospects.

 FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2011 file photo, the logo of the online reviews website Yelp is shown in neon on a wall at the company's new Manhattan offices in New York. Online reviews site Yelp is expected... (Associated Press)

 San Francisco-based Yelp Inc. late Thursday priced its initial public offering of stock at $15 a share. That's above its expected range of $12 and $14 per share. Yelp is selling 7.1 million shares, while its charitable foundation will sell 50,000. Investment bankers also have an option sell an another 1.07 million shares, depending on investor demand.

 The offering could raise as much as $123 million before expenses. It values Yelp at $900 million.

 That's a lot for a company that hasn't turned a profit since its 2004 founding. Rick Summer, an analyst at Morningstar, says that while Yelp is at "the head of the pack" compared to other review sites, he's concerned that businesses "may not see enough value in (Yelp's) advertising platform to increase spending and justify the expected price of this IPO."

 Though it's best known for restaurant reviews, Yelp's users have reviewed churches, strip clubs, hospitals, hotels and high schools. The company makes money from advertising. Most of the ads come from the local businesses that its users review. In 2011, it booked revenue of $83.3 million, up 74 percent from 2010. It had a net income loss of $16.7 million last year and $9.6 million the year before.

 Like so many startups, Yelp originated as a solution to a problem. Jeremy Stoppelman co-founded Yelp with former PayPal colleague Russel Simmons. Stoppelman, who serves as the company's CEO, wrote about the Yelp's beginnings in an op-ed printed in the San Francisco Chronicle in January 2009:

 "One day in the summer of 2004, I got sick and needed to see a doctor. I asked friends for referrals, but most of them were Bay Area transplants and didn't have any good recommendations. I searched on Google, but found only generic lists on health insurance Web sites. I wanted a doctor that fit my needs, not just any doctor," Stoppelman wrote. "I wondered why it was so easy to find consumer reviews for products like books and electronics, but so hard to find good referrals for local service providers like doctors and plumbers."

 That's where Yelp came in. By 2009, Yelp had grown to 17 million monthly users and 4.5 million reviews. It has expanded overseas, to the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany and beyond.

 Yelp.com attracts 66 million monthly unique visitors and is home to 25 million reviews as of the end of 2011, according to its regulatory filings. People used the company's mobile application, meanwhile, on 5.7 million mobile devices a month, on average. That's an impressive run, but Summer is worried that Google and Facebook "could grab more of the local advertising pie" and take business away from Yelp, constraining the company's potential growth and profitability.

 Foursquare is also edging in on Yelp's territory. The New York-based company best known for letting users check in to venues using their mobile phones, offers local recommendations and user tips on what to eat or do once you've checked in to a restaurant, store or other business.

 Even so, Yelp's stock will likely see a big jump on its first trading day, as investors who didn't get in at the pricing clamor to grab a share. That's what happened with LinkedIn Corp., the consumer reviews site Angie's List Inc. and others. Online deals company Groupon Inc. saw its stock jump 31 percent on its first trading day. On Thursday, though, Groupon's stock was trading slightly below its IPO price of $20.

 Francis Gaskins, president of IPOdesktop.com, expects Yelp's IPO to price above the expected range and thinks "there will be a lot of happy users who don't know valuation metrics" who will buy the stock on its first trading day. Even so, Gaskins says he's a "little bit skeptical" about Yelp's long-term prospects.

 "Sooner or later people will be wanting them to make money," he said. "They won't go away, it's not like the dot-com bust. (But) at some point in time, people are going to get tired of them losing money all the time."

 Nick Einhorn, research analyst at IPO investment advisory firm Renaissance Capital, thinks Yelp has done an "impressive job so far" in building up its user base and content.

 "While it is still reasonably small from a revenue standpoint, the company is still in the relatively early stages of monetization _ a large percentage of its revenue comes from its 20 oldest markets, so it should be able to continue to grow strongly as it drives monetization in its other 51 markets," along with new ones, he said.

 Yelp's users are its bread and butter. They're the ones who write the reviews, see the ads and hopefully click on them. To ensure that they trust the site _ and keep using it _ Yelp has kept a sturdy wall between its advertisements and reviews. Businesses can't run ads to boost their ratings and ads are clearly marked. Still, Yelp has elicited complaints from businesses about the way it screens out fake or biased reviews. The company uses an automated program to weed out unreliable posts, such as those written by business owners about their own restaurants _ or a competitor's. Some merchants have complained that the program made legitimate reviews disappear. In 2010, Yelp responded by adding an option to let users see reviews that are filtered out.

 That said, most user reviews are positive. As of August 2011, 38 percent of the reviews on Yelp were five stars, the highest possible rating, and just 11 percent were one-star reviews. On Friday, investors will get a chance to give their own ratings on the company's business.

 Life as a public company will be a change of pace for Yelp. Its new status will invite scrutiny from investors, regulators and the public. The challenge will be to keep it all in perspective.

 "Some companies feel that there is a lot of short-term focus," once they have gone public, said Gordon Tucker, the managing director of Protiviti, a company that helps businesses go public. "The companies that are successful are able to keep the long-term focus in mind." ||||| NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Reviews site Yelp priced its initial public offering at $15 a share late Thursday, above the target set by the company.

 San Francisco-based Yelp said it was selling 7.1 million shares in the offering, so the company will raise about $106.5 million in the IPO.

 Yelp said in its first IPO filing in November that it expected to raise $100 million. Last month, Yelp set a target range between $12 and $14 a share.

 An additional 50,000 shares are being sold by the Yelp Foundation. Underwriters led by Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) have the option of purchasing an additional 1,072,500 shares from the company.

 Founded in 2004, Yelp has developed an ubiquitous brand and amassed more than 18 million reviews of restaurants, salons, dentists and other businesses. Last quarter, about 66 million unique visitors went to Yelp's site on a monthly basis.

 Yelp will start trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange, under the ticker "YELP." Yelp's debut day comes almost exactly one month after Facebook filed for a $5 billion IPO.

 Unprofitable: Like many other tech companies testing the public markets in the past few months, Yelp isn't yet profitable. For the full year in 2011, Yelp had a net loss of $16.7 million on sales of $83.3 million. In 2010, Yelp lost $9.6 million on $47.7 million in revenue.

 Yelp's main revenue stream is selling advertising to local and national businesses. It also runs daily deals, but in August Yelp cut half its sales staff in that unit.

 Critics have questioned Yelp's high operating costs, as well as its ability to stay competitive in a field with a low barrier to entry.

 In fact, Yelp's initial filing revealed that Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), which is developing its own Yelp-like offerings and recently acquired restaurant guide Zagat, is a key traffic source -- which puts Yelp in a precarious position.

 Yelp itself indirectly addressed another potential problem for the company: the credibility and truthfulness of its reviews.

 In its initial filing back in November, Yelp said it had 22 million reviews on its site. But in an amended filing in February, the figure dropped to 18 million. That's because Yelp said it was "filtering" about 5 million reviews and had removed about 1.8 million reviews.

 Yelp filters or removes content when a review does not adhere to its terms of service. One example: a restaurant owner posting a 5-star review to boost her own company's rating.

 But investors may not be spooked by any of the potential problems, if the recent performances of other social media IPOs are any indication. Last year, several Internet companies went public despite questions about their business models.

 Another reviews site, the contractor-focused Angie's List (ANGI), shares jumped 33% when it started trading in August. It is still trading above its offering price.

 Social gaming company Zynga (ZNGA) raised $1 billion in December from its IPO. And although the stock had a lukewarm debut, the stock has recently picked up steam after reporting solid results and as investors realized how tied it is to Facebook.

 Business networking site LinkedIn (LNKD) has done well since going public last summer. The company has reported a profit in each quarter since its IPO. Shares have nearly doubled from their offering price.

 And shares of daily-deals site Groupon (GRPN) popped 31% in its November debut, despite criticism of unorthodox accounting measures that led to several downward revisions of its financials.

 But Groupon's stock has fallen this year after the company reported a fourth-quarter loss. |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article?

– Yelp shares hit the stock market today and soared, despite mixed reviews of the consumer review website's long-term prospects. The initial public offering of 7.1 million shares had been priced at $15 a share, which was above the target range of $12 to $14 it set last month; that valued Yelp at around $900 million, CNN notes. But shares were up 62% in early trading, at $24.60, Reuters reports, valuing the company at around $1.43 billion. That's 17 times its revenue in 2011. The 8-year-old website hosts some 25 million reviews of restaurants and other businesses, and lures close to 66 million visitors a month, but has never turned a profit, and is more than $40 million in debt. Analysts expected the stock to jump on its first day of trading, but with sites like Facebook and FourSquare seeking more money from local advertising, they are wary of recommending Yelp as a long-term investment. The president of IPOdesktop.com tells AP he is a "little bit skeptical" about Yelp's future prospects. "Sooner or later people will be wanting them to make money," he says. "They won't go away," but "at some point in time, people are going to get tired of them losing money all the time."


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 29/43 A robot with a touch-screen information apps stroll down the pavillon at the Singapore International Robo Expo Getty

 30/43 An exhibitor demonstrates the AnyWalker, an ultra-mobile chasis robot which is able to move in any kind of environment during Singapore International Robo Expo Getty

 31/43 Robotic fishes swim in a water glass tank displayed at the Korea pavillon during Singapore International Robo Expo Getty

 32/43 An employee shows a Samsung Electronics' Gear S3 Classic during Korea Electronics Show 2016 in Seoul, South Korea Reuters

 33/43 Visitors experience Samsung Electronics' Gear VR during the Korea Electronics Grand Fair at an exhibition hall in Seoul, South Korea Getty

 34/43 Amy Rimmer, Research Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, demonstrates the car manufacturer's Advanced Highway Assist in a Range Rover, which drives the vehicle, overtakes and can detect vehicles in the blind spot, during the first demonstrations of the UK Autodrive Project at HORIBA MIRA Proving Ground in Nuneaton, Warwickshire PA wire

 35/43 Chris Burbridge, Autonomous Driving Software Engineer for Tata Motors European Technical Centre, demonstrates the car manufacturer's GLOSA V2X functionality, which is connected to the traffic lights and shares information with the driver, during the first demonstrations of the UK Autodrive Project at HORIBA MIRA Proving Ground in Nuneaton, Warwickshire PA wire

 36/43 Ford EEBL Emergency Electronic Brake Lights is demonstrated during the first demonstrations of the UK Autodrive Project at HORIBA MIRA Proving Ground in Nuneaton, Warwickshire PA

 37/43 Full-scale model of 'Kibo' on display at the Space Dome exhibition hall of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Tsukuba Space Center, in Tsukuba, north-east of Tokyo, Japan EPA

 38/43 Miniatures on display at the Space Dome exhibition hall of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Tsukuba Space Center, in Tsukuba, north-east of Tokyo, Japan. In its facilities, JAXA develop satellites and analyse their observation data, train astronauts for utilization in the Japanese Experiment Module 'Kibo' of the International Space Station (ISS) and develop launch vehicles EPA

 39/43 The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to the music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight. At this biennial event, the participating companies exhibit their latest service robotic technologies and components Getty

 40/43 The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight Getty

 41/43 Government and industry are working together on a robot-like autopilot system that could eliminate the need for a second human pilot in the cockpit AP

 42/43 Aurora Flight Sciences' technicians work on an Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automantion System (ALIAS) device in the firm's Centaur aircraft at Manassas Airport in Manassas, Va. AP ||||| An Algerian court sentenced a man who dangled his baby cousin out of a 15th-floor window in the capital Algiers to two years in prison on Monday.

 The defendant posted on Facebook a photo of him dangling the baby out of a window with the caption, “1000 likes or I will drop him.” The child appeared to be in a state of fear and bewilderment.

 After watching the video, many Facebook users demanded that the man be tried on child abuse charges.

 The defendant carried out the horrific act allegedly to gain a high number of views and likes on the social media site.

 He alleges, however, that the picture was photoshopped. Speaking to Algeria's Ennahar news site, the man said that the balcony had protective bars that were removed by Facebook users in the viral image.

 The court was not convinced by the man's explanation.

 Last Update: Wednesday, 21 June 2017 KSA 09:59 - GMT 06:59 |||||

Write a summary.

– A man in Algeria apparently picked a terrible way to get attention on social media—and now he'll pay for it in prison. On Monday an Algerian court sentenced the unnamed man to two years after he posted to Facebook a photo of himself dangling a baby out of a 15th-story window in an attempt to get "likes," reports Al Arabiya English. The photo shows the baby being held by a single hand outside the apartment building in the capital city of Algiers over the caption "1000 likes or I will drop him." The BBC reports that other social media users quickly denounced the photo, and police charged the man with endangering the life of a child when they arrested him on Sunday. The man, who is a cousin of the baby's, swears the whole thing was a misunderstanding. The Independent reports he told Algeria's Ennahar TV the photo was manipulated by Facebook users to make it look worse than it actually was, claiming the "protective barriers" that were present were digitally removed. The boy's father also said he believed the man was just being playful and asked the court for mercy. Last week another man was jailed over photos shared to Facebook.


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 This blog will no longer be updated. View our latest Technology news on the new FT.com #techFT is your free daily newsletter summarising all you need to know on the latest news and trends in technology, digital media and telecoms. It provides sharp commentary and analysis and highlights the best FT writing from correspondents around the world, as well as linking to outstanding coverage around the world. ||||| Moshe Hogeg had a problem: He was tired of sending countless text messages to his assistant, asking her to come into the room. So Hogeg, CEO of the photo and video sharing service Mobli, asked Or Arbel, a former iOS designer at the company, to create a solution.

 What Hogeg wanted, as Arbel recalls, was an app that had "one big button and when I tap it, it sends her a notification and she knows that I need her." Arbel's response was less than enthusiastic at first: "I told him it will take me two hours to do it, but I’m not going to do it, because it's a silly idea."

 Arbel was wrong about two things: He did end up doing it. And it took him eight hours to build the initial version, not two.

 The result was Yo, an app that lets users say "yo" to their contacts. If you're feeling particularly chatty, you can double tap a contact's name to say "YoYo." Those are the only ways to communicate within the app.

 The free app launched quietly in April, but received some mainstream attention on Wednesday after the Financial Times wrote it up. The idea of an app dedicated to simply saying "yo" would likely have been easy enough to poke fun at, but the article noted that investors had contributed $1 million toward the app. That detail lit a fire on Twitter.

 Hopefully Yo will learn from Instagrm, and hold out. RT @jyarow: Facebook should buy Yo for $2 billion. — Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) June 18, 2014

 I honestly can’t tell if this is a joke or not http://t.co/HfANMjrwWp — Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) June 18, 2014

 facebook devs start working on an app called 'hey' in 3...2... — ▵ Jenna Wortham ▵ (@jennydeluxe) June 18, 2014

 New app idea: Like Yo, but not stupid — delrayser (@delrayser) June 18, 2014

 After initially greeting me on the phone — yes, he said "yo" — Arbel quickly launched into an explanation of what he believed these and other commenters were missing.

 "People don’t get it. They think that it's just an app that says 'Yo,'" he told Mashable. "What we see is a whole new way to get notifications — life notifications — from friends, family..."

 One use case, he says, is that people can add "WorldCup" on Yo and receive a "yo" every time a goal is scored in a soccer match. Another use case his team is working on is adding a Yo button that can be embedded on blogs and be used to notify readers — with a message from the blog reading "yo" — that a new story has published.

 According to Arbel, "one guy" uses the app to show his girlfriend that he's thinking of her throughout the day. "His girlfriend is always complaining that he doesn't text her during the day," Arbel explains. Upon further questioning, that user turned out to be Hogeg, the Mobli CEO who pushed for the idea in the first place.

 "If you think this is just an app that says 'Yo,' you are getting it wrong," he says. "It's a new way to get lightweight, non-intrusive notifications. We are here to cut through the noise. We like to call it context-based messaging."

 In short, it's like a cross between Facebook's original Poke button, Foursquare's new Swarm app, an RSS reader and WhatsApp without so many words.

 We could probably write something about how this app somehow epitomizes the trend toward frictionless communication, or scoff at the idea of investors throwing money at any app that somehow fits into the social/mobile category. Or we could just point out the irony that an app which lets you send a two-letter word over and over is somehow getting more buzz today than Facebook's new messaging app, Slingshot.

 But for now, we'll just say "yo."

 You can download the app on iOS and Android. ||||| Photo

 Some technology start-ups want to cure the world’s ills. Others want to disrupt major industries. One app has a strategy that amounts to a single word.

 Yo.

 The app, called Yo, lets people say “Yo” to their friends. Tap a name on the app’s list of contacts, and a text notification saying “Yo” pops up on the recipient’s smartphone, along with a recorded voice shouting the syllable.

 The idea is simple. It may turn out to be a dud. But $1 million has already been staked on its success.

 Or Arbel, the chief executive of Yo, said on Wednesday that he had raised that seven-figure sum from a group of angel investors led by Moshe Hogeg, the chief executive of an image-sharing app called Mobli. Yo has so much potential, Mr. Arbel said, that last week he left his job as the chief technology officer of Stox, a stock trading platform he helped start last year, and moved to San Francisco from Tel Aviv to work on Yo full-time.

 “People think it’s just an app that says ‘Yo.’ But it’s really not,” Mr. Arbel said. “We like to call it context-based messaging. You understand by the context what is being said.”

 Mr. Arbel has big plans for Yo. One possible use, he said, would be for newspapers and blogs to send Yo’s to subscribers (rather, to Yo them) when a new article is published.

 Already, Yo is piggybacking on the mania for the World Cup. Anyone who sends a Yo to “WORLDCUP” will get Yo notifications whenever a goal is scored. How does the company do it? Simple: One of its four part-time employees is responsible for watching every World Cup game.

 Mr. Arbel insists that this is useful information. The Yo, he said, can prompt people to look at a nearby screen to check out the action.

 The simplicity is the whole point.

 “It’s a lightweight, nonintrusive way to communicate with your friends and family and also things that interest you,” Mr. Arbel said.

 The idea came from Mr. Hogeg, who asked Mr. Arbel a few months ago to create an app whose sole purpose would be to notify Mr. Hogeg’s personal assistant when Mr. Hogeg wanted to see her in his office. Mr. Arbel figured it would be easy enough to build, but said he didn’t have time.

 Mr. Hogeg was persistent. But Mr. Arbel dismissed the idea. “I said, ‘No, it’s really stupid. Other people can’t use it. How many people in the world have a personal assistant?’ ”

 “Then, a day later, I thought about this app,” Mr. Arbel said. “And I remembered that I have a friend in L.A., and he and I communicate with text messages that mean nothing.”

 “And then it hit me,” he said.

 After eight hours of work, Yo was born. It debuted on Apple’s app store in April. Mr. Arbel estimated that almost four million Yo’s have been sent to date.

 A Yo can mean different things. Mr. Arbel said he would send a Yo to a business partner to signify “good morning.”

 It can also have a more personal connotation. Mr. Arbel recalled that Mr. Hogeg’s wife once complained that her husband wasn’t texting her enough to say “I love you.”

 “He started Yo-ing her in the middle in the day, and then she knows he’s thinking about her,” Mr. Arbel said. “So she doesn’t bother him any more.”

 The financing round was reported earlier by The Financial Times.

 Among the technophiles and journalists, Yo was, at least momentarily, a phenomenon on Twitter.

 There were also some questions, with a hint of frustration.

 why is my timeline full of yo — Jared Keller (@jaredbkeller) 18 Jun 14

 What are you turkeys talking about today? What is this Yo thing? — Ben White (@morningmoneyben) 18 Jun 14

 Some hoped Yo would just go away.

 I just got my first Yo, from @TheStalwart. It’s already annoying. — Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) 18 Jun 14

 Just gonna ignore this Yo thing and hope it goes away. — Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) 18 Jun 14

 Okay I have a new app where you tap on a friend’s name and it just leaves them alone, get in on my Series A at a $50mm valuation. — Matt Levine (@matt_levine) 18 Jun 14 ||||| Economy People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’ CREDIT:

 It only took 8 hours to build the app, and the only thing it does is allow you to send the word ‘Yo’ to your friends. To many, it seems like a joke. But its inventor, Or Arbel, is totally serious.

 Arbel, who built the app three months ago, has quit his job and moved halfway around the world — from his native Israel to San Francisco — to work on Yo full time. He’s opening an office, hiring staff and seeking “strategic partners.” And oh yeah: He’s already raised $1 million from investors.

 So is Arbel right? Is Yo, which he calls “context-based communications,” the future of messaging? Or is investor interest in Yo an unmistakable sign that we are in the midst of another internet bubble?

 “the way it affects your life is profound”

 Yo is a very simple app. It allows you to send a push notification to anyone else with the app. All of those notifications say the same thing: “Yo.” Arbel says that “you usually understand what the Yo means based on who you get it from and when you get it.” According to Arbel, once you start using Yo “the way it affects your life is profound.” He noted that many of the reviews of Yo in the app store say things like “Yo changed my life.”

 Some of these reviews, however, do seem a bit sarcastic: “Not just a means of simple but effective communication, Yo is a way of life,” one review says. “Since downloading Yo, all my relationships have improved and I’ve regrown most of my hair.”

 Yo was launched in the App Store on April Fool’s Day of this year. (It was initially rejected by Apple because they thought the App wasn’t finished yet.) It took off when tech evangelist Robert Scoble called it “the stupidest but most addicting app ever.” Thus far, it has attracted over 50,000 users who have sent about 4 million Yos. It’s particularly popular among other start-ups like Kickstarter and Four Square. Once it gets into an office, Arbel says, “it goes viral.”

 Why not just send the word “Yo” using an existing messaging app? Arbel says the primary benefit is efficiency. With WhatsApp, an extremely popular messaging app that allows you to send words of your choosing, it takes 11 taps to send a Yo. With the Yo app, it only takes two taps.

 The comparison to WhatsApp also may point to Arbel’s larger strategy. In February, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, even though the company’s revenue is negligible. Arbel says that anyone who uses WhatsApp will also want Yo. If Arbel can grow Yo into something a larger company believes is even 1 percent as valuable as WhatsApp, that’s still $190 million.

 Some analysts believe the WhatsApp sale and the flood of venture capital seeking out the next big thing represents a new tech bubble. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn, speaking to the Los Angeles Times recently, said “[t]here is a clear consensus that we are witnessing our second tech bubble in 15 years. What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.”

 “We do have some users who don’t get it and think it’s a joke”

 During the last tech bubble, in 2000, the Nasdaq Index — which features many technology stocks — lost nearly 80 percent of its value and “Silicon Valley saw 200,000 jobs evaporate overnight.” In the first quarter of 2014 “venture capitalists invested $9.5 billion in 951 U.S. companies,” a level not seen since the last bust.

 Many people within the tech industry, however, remain bullish. The internet is much more mature than at the turn of the century, the smartphone plays a central role in modern life, and people much more willing to spend money to enhance their online experience.

 So how do you convince investors that there is money to be made in the Yo-delivery business? Arbel is working on developing an API that will allow him to “partner with brands.” In our Yo-enhanced future you would get Yos from “things that interest you.” When the Gap has a sale, for example, it would send you a Yo. When your friend’s plane lands, Delta will send you a Yo. Arbel is particularly excited about the prospect of getting a Yo into Starbucks. When your order is ready, Starbucks could send you a Yo.

 “Shouting your name is old fashioned,” he says.

 The first $1 million has come from group of investors associated with Moshe Hogeg, the CEO a social network similar to Instagram, Mobli, where Arbel worked for two years. (He initially created the app at the request of Hogeg, who wanted an easy want to tell his personal assistant he needed to talk to her.) Arbel said he’d like to raise some more money from “strategic partners.”

 One thing that Arbel won’t be doing is adding more features. He believes that simplicity is the key to its success. (There are some hidden features, or “Easter eggs,” in the app. You can double tap someone’s name to send a “YoYo.” And adding a plus sign between usernames sends Yos to a group.) The simplicity also provides some benefits to users. Unlike most other messaging apps, Yo doesn’t collect any personal information from users. In comparison to photo messaging apps like SnapChat, it’s hard for kids to get into trouble using Yo. You cannot sext on it.

 “We do have some users who don’t get it and think it’s a joke,” Arbel admits. He thinks that even if users initially download the app because they think its funny, they’ll keep using it because it will “change their everyday life.” He describes the perception of Yo as a joke as a “problem we need to solve.”

 The larger problem is whether an economy built on seven-figure investments in Apps like Yo is sustainable. If Arbel can convince sophisticated investors that Yo already merits a $1 million investment, maybe he is onto something. Or maybe the potential of Yo is not in the product itself, but on the ability in a frenzied marketplace to quickly flip Yo to another company for a profit and move onto the next app. It was too many of those kinds of transactions — divorced from revenue or value of the consumer — that caused the entire system to crash at the turn of the century.

 Where does Yo fit into this equation? We’ll need to wait and see. Until then, Arbel has been waiting for a Yo when this piece gets published. |||||
What is a shorter version of the above article?

– Have you been Yo'd yet? If the question makes no sense, you've missed the buzz around a new app called Yo that allows people to send a message of "Yo" to their friends. That's it. (Unless you double-tap the name and make it "YoYo." Before laughing it off, note that the creators are dead serious about its potential and have already raised $1 million from investors led by Mobli CEO Moshe Hogeg, as the Financial Times reported in the story that set off a flurry of coverage. Inventor Or Arbel tells ThinkProgress that the promise of Yo centers around what he calls "context-based communications." Users generally understand what the Yo means based on who sends it and when it arrives. (Yeah, the app is drawing its fair share of ridicule.) "People don’t get it," Arbel tells Mashable. "They think that it's just an app that says 'Yo.' What we see is a whole new way to get notifications—life notifications—from friends, family." Or from businesses: Arbel floats the idea of Starbucks customers getting a Yo when their drink is ready. And the New York Times notes that users can get a Yo every time a goal is scored in the World Cup—thanks to a part-time employee who is charged with watching every game. All the stories relay the genesis of the idea: Hogeg asked Arbel for a simple app that would allow him to summon his personal assistant with the press of a button. After eight hours of work, Yo was born.


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 Navarro and Valles-Flores were part of a four-man crew replacing shingles on a roof of a home on County Road FF just outside the city of River Falls. Witnesses told authorities Navarro cut Valles-Flores with a circular saw, causing Valles-Flores to fall backwards onto the garage roof where Navarro continued to cut him. The two other co-workers reportedly jumped off the roof and hid until police arrived.

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 There was no apparent argument leading up to the attack, though in a recorded jail call Miguel allegedly said he had been teased and was not getting paid, as well as that he thought he had been possibly drugged to work more "and didn't feel right," according to the complaint.

 Valles-Flores died of his injuries on the garage roof. He sustained 10 sharp force injuries across his face, neck, back and lower and upper extremities, as well as a transection of the jugular vein and carotid artery, according to a provisional autopsy.

 A first-degree intentional homicide conviction carries a life sentence. The mayhem charge carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.

 Navarro was being held Thursday in Pierce County Jail on $500,000 cash bond. |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article?

– A roofer has been accused of gruesomely murdering his co-worker using a tool of the trade. The Pierce County Herald reports that 24-year-old Miguel Angel Franco Navarro faces charges of first-degree intentional homicide and mayhem in the death of 37-year-old Israel Valles-Flores. Authorities in Wisconsin say that his weapon of choice was a circular saw and that the slaying unfolded while the two were part of a crew working atop a home outside the city of River Falls on Aug. 6. Per the criminal complaint cited by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, police say the victim handed Navarro the saw moments before Navarro sliced Valles-Flores' throat. Valles-Flores then fell onto an adjoining room, where he was discovered dead. A circular saw was found at the scene. In a recorded phone call from jail following his arrest, Navarro allegedly said he was being teased by his co-workers prior to the attack and that it made him feel "really mad inside." However, a relative of Valles-Flores told reporters the two men had known each other for years and would frequently poke fun at one another. Navarro is being held in lieu of $500,000 bond and has a hearing set for Monday.


traffic Iowa’s New Anti-Texting Thumb Bands Misunderstand How Teenagers Work

 To stop residents from driving while texting, Iowa police have basically created the next Silly Bandz. As part of its "X the TXT" campaign, the state has ordered 30,000 thumb bands in black, blue, and bright pink with words "TXTING KILLS," giving them away at the Iowa State Fair and high school football games. Hey, take a picture of me driving with this thing on so I can tweet that shit. Seriously, have you ever seen a kid in a D.A.R.E. shirt that wasn't stoned? [WSJ] ||||| Iowa police are on the lookout for drivers who send text messages behind the wheel. So far, the effort is all thumbs.

 Instead of tickets, police are giving texting drivers colorful bands to wear on their thumbs that say: "TXTNG KILLS."

 View Full Image Iowa Department of Public Safety A 'TXTNG KILLS' thumb band being handed out by Iowa police.

 The bands are part of a statewide campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of texting while driving under a new law prohibiting the practice that took effect July 1. For the first year, police can give scofflaws warnings only. Next year, fines will kick in.

 Deputy Craig LaKose of the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff's Department in northern Iowa was given half a dozen of the bands in blue, black and bright pink at the beginning of October, but has yet to catch anyone in the act.

 "It's hard to grab somebody when you're in a marked squad car," he said. "In your own personal car, you can see it going down the road—how many people are doing it."

 Courtney Greene, spokeswoman for Iowa's Department of Public Safety, said even state police have trouble catching texters in the act. After a few stops, she said, "the kids text out, 'Watch out, put your phones down.' "

 The state ordered 30,000 of the bands and plans to order another 30,000. State employees have been distributing them at events such as the Iowa State Fair, high-school football games and the Iowa-Iowa State college football game.

 "A lot of people want them for their kids," Ms. Greene said. "It's a fun way to get across a serious message about not texting and driving."

 Several national groups are handing out similar thumb bands, including insurance giant Allstate Corp., whose "X the TXT" campaign has persuaded more than 100,000 people to pledge to stop texting while driving since last November.

 Thirty states ban texting while driving, including 11 that enacted laws this year, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association.

 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that in 2008 nearly 6,000 people died in crashes involving some type of distracted driving, including cellphone use and texting. In Iowa, 16 people have died in accidents involving cellphones since 2001.

 Sheriff Kevin Pals in Cerro Gordo County, population 47,000, said he received about 150 of the bands, which he gave to his deputies to hand out during traffic stops or to anyone who asks for one.

 "I got a call from a woman in Des Moines who wanted them for her nieces and nephews," he said. "I'm optimistic they'll go fast."

 Write to Joe Barrett at joseph.barrett@wsj.com |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article?

– Iowa drivers caught texting while driving under a new law aren't getting tickets. Instead, police are handing out brightly colored thumb bracelets that bear the phrase TXTING KILLS, reports the Wall Street Journal. The idea is to raise awareness, with fines kicking in next year. State employees are also distributing the bracelets at fairs and football games. So far, authorities say they're not having much luck catching drivers in the act. Once a few stops are made, "the kids text out, 'Watch out, put your phones down,'" says a spokesman for the Public Safety office. The Daily Intel blog at New York magazine is a wee bit skeptical of the bracelet approach. "Seriously, have you ever seen a kid in a DARE shirt that wasn't stoned?"


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Congrats to Jodie Foster and her new wife Alexandra Hedison.

 I can exclusively reveal that the Oscar winner and her photographer girlfriend of almost a year got married this past weekend.

 A rep for Foster confirms the happy news.

 As E! News first reported, the two started dating sometime last summer.

 "It's pretty serious," a source told us in September. "They're totally in love."

 Internet chatter about the two began in the summer when the two were photographed together at a technology seminar at Fox Studios in Los Angeles and out to dinner with friends a few days later. Both were at the opening of Alan Cumming's Macbeth in NYC back about a year ago, but they weren't photographed together. ||||| Surprise! Jodie Foster is a married woman, PEOPLE has confirmed.

 The Oscar-winning actress wed photographer Alexandra Hedison over the weekend after dating for almost a year.

 E! Online first reported the news of the couple’s nuptials.

 In 2013, Foster, 51, gave a stirring speech at the Golden Globes that many interpreted as her coming out.

 “This is not going to be a big coming-out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age – in those very quaint days when a fragile girl would open up to trusted friends and family and coworkers and then gradually proudly to everyone who knew her,” she said during the awards, before thanking her ex-partner Cydney Bernard, the mother of her two sons.

 • Reporting by JULIE JORDAN

 PHOTOS: Surprise! We’re Married! |||||Summary:

– Jodie Foster may have come out as gay only last year, but today she's a married woman. The 51-year-old Oscar winner married photographer girlfriend Alexandra Hedison, 44, over the weekend, reports E! Online. The two had been dating almost a year, notes People. Earlier this month, a report surfaced suggesting things were serious: Foster reportedly gave up booze because Hedison is a recovering alcoholic. Foster has two sons from her previous relationship with ex-partner Cydney Bernard, while Hedison previously dated Ellen DeGeneres for three years.


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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say extremists from the Islamic State group have seized key towns and villages near the border with Turkey after deadly clashes with other rebels in the area.

 They say fighters of the group captured the towns of Akhtarin and Turkmanbareh in the Aleppo countryside Wednesday, dislodging other rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. They also took three nearby areas.

 The towns are the latest prize for Islamic State militants, who have carved out a self-styled caliphate across vast swaths of eastern Syria and northern and western Iraq.

 The towns' takeover was reported by several activists, jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State group on social media and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ||||| PARIS (AP) — Calling the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan "catastrophic," France said Wednesday it would start supplying arms to the Kurdish forces fighting Sunni extremists from the Islamic State group.

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 The sudden announcement that arms would begin to flow within hours underlined France's alarm at the urgency of the situation in Iraq, where the Islamic State fighters are threatening the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

 The shipment of French arms, which the government refused to describe, follows the United States' increased role in fighting back the Islamic State extremists.

 Senior American officials say U.S. intelligence agencies are directly arming the Kurds, a shift in Washington's policy of only working through the Baghdad government. On Tuesday, 130 U.S. troops arrived in the Kurdish capital of Irbil on what the Pentagon described as a temporary mission to coordinate plans to help trapped Yazidi civilians on Sinjar Mountain.

 France says its arms shipment was coordinated with the Iraqi government.

 French authorities have pushed other European Union members to do more to aid Christian and other minorities being targeted by the Islamic State group extremists. A high-level EU diplomatic meeting late Tuesday ended with a statement that it would consider the Kurdish request for urgent military support "in close coordination with Iraqi authorities."

 Earlier Wednesday, France had pledged to deliver a new 20-ton shipment of humanitarian aid including medicine, tents and water treatment equipment to Irbil later in the day.

 The turmoil stems from the rapid advance of the Islamic State group and allied Sunni militants across northern and western Iraq in June. The insurgency seized Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, and routed Iraq's beleaguered armed forces. Thousands of people have been killed and more than 1.5 million have been displaced by the violence. |||||Summary:

– Another 130 Marines and special operations forces have been sent to Iraq to help rescue tens of thousands of Yazidi refugees still trapped on a mountain, but this "is not a combat boots on the ground kind of operation," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says. Speaking at California's Camp Pendleton, he described the extra American troops now in the northern city of Irbil as "assessment team members" who will assist the effort to help members of the Yazidi minority threatened by Islamic State extremists. A helicopter bringing supplies to people trapped on Mount Sinjar crashed yesterday after too many refugees climbed on board. More: As the plight of the refugees becomes increasingly desperate, American officials say a ground force may be necessary to get the refugees off the mountain, the New York Times reports. John Kerry says the 130 advisers will be tasked with finding a safe way out. "We will make a very rapid and critical assessment because we understand it is urgent to try to move those people off the mountain," he told reporters today. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, meanwhile, appears to have given up on trying to cling to power at any cost, the New York Times notes. He has told troops deployed in Baghdad not to intervene in the crisis—and officials say the military has told Maliki he no longer has their support. Insiders say discussions on Maliki stepping down are now focused on immunity from prosecution. New Iraqi President Fouad Massoum has chosen deputy parliament speaker Haider al-Ibadi as Maliki's replacement. France is sending arms in "coming hours" to Kurds fighting the Islamic State in a situation it calls "catastrophic," reports the AP. The move comes with Baghdad's blessing. Across the border in Syria, Islamic State militants have made fresh gains, reports the AP. Opposition activists say fighters have seized two key towns near the Turkish border after clashes with other rebel groups.


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Violent psychopaths seem to have abnormalities in the parts of the brain that learn from punishment, according to a new study published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry. Knowledge about these brain differences could one day be used to help children whose brain makeup puts them at risk for psychopathy.

 Using fMRI imaging, a team of researchers looked at the brain signaling of 50 men: 12 violent offenders—all people with antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy who had been convicted of murder, rape, attempted murder or grievous bodily harm—20 violent offenders with antisocial personality disorder but not psychopathy, and 18 non-offenders.

 While their brains were being scanned, the men completed an image matching test that measured their ability to change their behavior and choices based on feedback they were getting from the game. The psychopathic men had a much harder time with changing their behavior, and they took significantly longer to adapt when the game changed its rules.

 Scans of the psychopaths’ brains looked different from both non-psychopathic criminals and non-offenders, showing noticeable abnormalities in their white and gray matter—both of which are involved with connecting brain regions. The abnormalities were observed in areas of the brain where emotions like guilt, embarrassment and moral reasoning are processed. Some of those abnormalities were linked to a lack of empathy.

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 Prior studies of psychopaths have shown that rehabilitation efforts often fall short, which is why the researchers looked into the underlying mechanisms.

 The authors write that many of the characteristics of psychopathy appear very early in age, and if caught early enough, interventions could alter brain structure. The researchers hope their findings could lead to the development of programs for parents who observe callousness and repeated violent behavior among their children early on.

 “As most violent crimes are committed by men with this early-onset stable pattern of antisocial and aggressive behavior, interventions that target the specific underlying brain mechanisms and effect change in the behavior have the potential to significantly reduce the rate of violent crime,” the authors write.

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 The brains of psychopathic violent criminals have abnormalities in regions related to punishment that are not seen in the brains of violent criminals who are not psychopathic, according to new research using brain scans.

 These MRI scans suggest that psychopaths don't grasp punishment the same way as other people, the researchers said. This is likely why psychopaths do not benefit from rehabilitation programs, as other violent criminals often do, the scientists report today (Jan. 28) in the journal Lancet Psychiatry.

 However, understanding these neurological underpinnings of psychopathy may improve interventions during childhood, when psychopathic behavior emerges as something distinct from ordinary delinquency, the scientists said.

 "Psychopathic offenders are different from regular criminals in many ways," said Dr. Nigel Blackwood of King's College London, a senior author on the paper. "Regular criminals are hyper-responsive to threat, quick-tempered and aggressive, while psychopaths have a very low response to threats, are cold, and their aggressive behavior is premeditated."

 In previous research, Blackwood has described psychopaths as "cold-hearted" and other violent offenders as "hot-headed." [Top 10 Controversial Psychiatric Disorders]

 To understand this difference, Blackwood and his colleagues conducted MRI scans of the brains of 12 violent criminals with psychopathy, 20 violent criminals with antisocial personality disorder but not psychopathy, and 18 healthy people who were not criminals. The criminals had been convicted of murder, rape, attempted murder or grievous bodily harm in the United Kingdom.

 While their brains were being scanned, the participants were asked to play a matching game to assess their ability to change their behavior when confronted with rewards and punishment.

 In the group of criminals who were psychopathic, the scientists observed lower volumes of gray matter in brain regions involved in empathy, moral reasoning, and the processing of social emotions such as guilt and embarrassment. They also found abnormalities in white matter fibers leading to the prefrontal cortex, in regions involved in learning from reward and punishment.

 The other violent criminals performed similarly to the people who were not criminals in this test, the researchers found.

 For any person, deciding on how to behave involves generating a list of possible actions, weighing the negative and positive consequences of each, and, hopefully, choosing the behavior most likely to lead to a positive outcome, explained Sheilagh Hodgins, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal, who co-led the study with Blackwood.

 "Offenders with psychopathy may only consider the possible positive consequences and fail to take account of the likely negative consequences," Hodgins said. "Consequently, their behavior often leads to punishment rather than reward as they had expected."

 So, approaches to rehabilitation that are based on treating the behavior problems of psychopaths similarly to those of criminals who are not psychopathic are bound to fail, the researchers said.

 "Offender rehabilitation focuses on changing behavior, but to succeed it must take account of the personality characteristics of the offenders," Hodgins told Live Science. "Those with psychopathy are less empathetic, more callous, more manipulative, and they commit more violent crimes, some of which are premeditated."

 What can be done to help psychopaths control their behavior? The researchers suggest focusing on learning-based interventions during childhood, when there still is the potential to alter brain structure and function.

 Hodgins said that researchers are "only beginning to learn about the childhood antecedents of the syndrome of psychopathy," but that her group's study provides a hypothesis on the emergence of psychopathy and how to test for it in children.

 There is ongoing research trying to understand how to help children with psychopathic characteristics — that is, being callous, unemotional and prone to disruptive conduct — to become more emotionally responsive, Hodgins said. This may include focusing on reward and using negative reinforcement sparingly when interacting with these children.

 "Since most violent crimes are committed by men who display conduct problems from a young age, learning-based interventions that target the specific brain mechanisms underlying this behavior pattern and thereby change the behavior would significantly reduce violent crime," Hodgins said.

 But the abnormalities of brain structure and function associated with persistent violent behavior are subtle and complex, Blackwood added. And little is still known about how genes and the environment conspire to create a cold, ruthless killer.

 Follow Christopher Wanjek @wanjek for daily tweets on health and science with a humorous edge. Wanjek is the author of "Food at Work" and "Bad Medicine." His column, Bad Medicine, appears regularly on Live Science. |||||Summary:

– Psychopaths just don't grasp punishment the way normal people do. So say researchers who used MRI scans to analyze the brains of 12 violent psychopathic criminals, 20 violent criminals who are not psychopaths, and 18 healthy controls who are not criminals. It turns out that the psychopath cohort had a much harder time changing their behaviors and choices when playing an image matching game, as well as adapting when the rules of the game changed, reports Time. Abnormalities were seen in brain regions that process things like moral reasoning, guilt, and embarrassment. This may explain why previous research has shown that rehabilitation using negative reinforcement like punishment rarely works on psychopaths. "Psychopathic offenders are different from regular criminals in many ways," one researcher tells LiveScience. "Regular criminals are hyper-responsive to threat, quick-tempered, and aggressive, while psychopaths have a very low response to threats, are cold, and their aggressive behavior is premeditated." On the plus side, researchers hope that earlier behavioral interventions in young kids could potentially change actual brain structure and function, though not much is yet understood about how one's genes and upbringing contribute to the making of cold-blooded, psychopathic killers. (Psychopaths also seem to have a terrible sense of smell.)


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 “I feel like this wasn’t fair. It felt like it wasn’t legal,” Ramer said. “It really did hurt my feelings. I have watched others wear it and I looked forward to it my whole four years there. Now when it was my turn, [they said] I couldn’t.”

 Ramer said American Indian seniors four years ago wore feathers to the school’s graduation, but because it was a surprise to the school, no action was taken.

 “About two months ago, me and the other Indian seniors from the graduating class asked our headmaster if we could wear the feathers on our caps. She told us ‘no’ and that if we did, she would pull us off the field,” Ramer said.

 Ramer says soon after their request, the school gave graduating students a contract that they had to sign or they would not be able to participate in graduation.

 “I never signed that paper,” she said.

 The contract outlined rules for what to wear at the graduation ceremony. It forbid any “extraneous items during graduation exercises.” It also said students violating the contract would not get their diplomas until appropriate disciplinary actions were taken and students paid a $1,000 fine.

 Ramer decided that expressing her Native heritage with an eagle feather was worth the consequences. Of the other three Native seniors at Escambia, one wore a feather on a necklace and did not face any disciplinary actions; the other two did not wear a feather at all for fear of being fined.

 While Ramer was nervous on graduation day, she had been looking forward to wearing that eagle feather for four years, so she wore it with pride.

 “I got my friend behind me to put it on my tassel, I went down the field. They didn't say anything, but you could tell the staff and the headmaster was upset. But everybody clapped for me,” she said.

 Though no one addressed the issue during the ceremony, she was not given a diploma. “I turned in my cap and gown and they just looked at me,” Ramer said.

 When Ramer visited the administrative office on May 29 to speak with Headmaster Betty Warren, she was told Warren was no longer with the school.

 According to the school’s website, David Walker, the girls’ basketball coach is now serving as the interim headmaster. It is unclear if this change is related to the graduation incident.

 “I went in today to talk to Mrs. Warren and they told me she had gotten fired,” Ramer said. “I looked in her office and it was already cleaned out… I asked why she got fired and the people told me they didn't know. I didn’t say anything, but Coach Walker said some people from Indian country were calling him and asking for a statement, but he didn’t know what to tell them.”

 Alex Alvarez, Creek, a former teacher of Ramer’s and family friend who attended the graduation ceremony, says the situation is frustrating.

 “I think this is ridiculous. If they took the time to understand and respect the differences in individuals, this would have never happened,” he said. “We don’t have much left as Indian people, to give a child an eagle feather as an achievement should be adhered to.”

 Alvarez said for the past two months parents and tribal council members had requested to speak with school board members to discuss the issue of the eagle feather but such requests were never granted.

 “The kicker is that this is a private school,” Alvarez continued. “Private institutions still have to follow federal guidelines, especially in regards to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.”

 Alvarez even wrote to his local newspaper, The Atmore Advance, citing these concerns, but the school didn’t change its stance.

 ICTMN made several attempts to contact the school for a comment, but none were returned.

 Ramer still does not have her diploma. She said after speaking to Coach Walker, “He said if it was up to him, he would give me my diploma… but he had to go through the board to get it approved.”

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– Chelsey Ramer, a member of the Poarch Creek Band of Indians, wanted to wear an important symbol of her Native American heritage when she graduated from her Alabama high school last month: an eagle feather. But the principal of Escambia Academy denied her request; soon after the school distributed a dress code contract (which prohibits "extraneous items" worn during graduation) that seniors had to sign in order to walk during the ceremony. Chelsey didn't sign, walked anyway—feather attached to her cap's tassel—and now she's been fined $1,000, which she must pay if she wants to get her diploma and transcripts. "I don't think it's fair at all. I feel like it's discrimination," the 17-year-old says. Her tribal teacher points out that though the school is private, it is still required to follow the federal American Indian Religious Freedom Act, reports Indian Country Today Media Network. Chelsey tells Local 15 the principal was fired after the incident, thought it hasn't been confirmed that the departure is related to the feather issue. She says she's waiting to see if the school board reverses the decision and is also seeking legal counsel.


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– Mark and Christina Rotondo wanted their 30-year-old son, Michael, to move out of their home in Camillus, NY. He wouldn't, and after a legal battle that made its way to New York's State Supreme Court, Justice Donald Greenwood sided with the parents Tuesday and told Michael he would have to leave. The story went viral after Syracuse.com first reported on it last week; its article features a series of letters the Rotondos gave their son, starting with one on Feb. 2 of this year giving him 14 days to move out. Letters given to him after that include everything from a formal eviction notice to money ($1,100 to help him find a new place), advice ("There are jobs available even for those with a poor work history like you. Get one."), and strongly-worded suggestions that he sell his things ("especially ... any weapons you may have") to raise funds. The Rotondos went to the town court in April after Michael stayed put, then found out only a state Supreme Court justice could remove a family member. During Tuesday's hearing, which Syracuse.com called "surreal," Michael Rotondo argued with the judge for 30 minutes, including insisting he was legally entitled to six months' notice before having to move out. The judge said that's not true, pointing to an appellate court decision ruling, and asked the parents' lawyer to come up with an eviction order that Greenwood could sign. He also asked adult protective services to investigate the case. Outside the courthouse, Michael Rotondo, who moved back home eight years ago after losing a job, told reporters he would appeal the decision. He said he doesn't speak to his parents but that he is not ready to move out. According to court filings cited by ABC 7, his parents say he does not contribute to household expenses or do chores.

Syracuse, NY -- State Supreme Court Justice Donald Greenwood tried everything he could today to convince a 30-year-old man to move out of his parents' Camillus house on his own.

 But after half an hour of back-and-forth, primarily between the son, Michael Rotondo, and the judge, the judge had had enough:

 Rotondo would have to move out, the judge ruled. He also ordered adult protective services to investigate, expressing concern about what was going on.

 That order capped a surreal 30-minute court appearance in which Rotondo didn't deny that his parents had given him multiple orders to leave their 408 Weatheridge Drive home. But Rotondo wasn't going to leave without a legal battle.

 Since the story was first reported on Syracuse.com, it's captured attention both nationally and internationally, with outlets such as the New York Post, Fox News and the BBC covering the case. The court fight made the Late Late Show with James Corden. A half-dozen camera crews covered today's court appearance.

 Today, the parents' lawyer, Anthony Adorante, told the judge he was looking for a court order that could be enforceable by sheriff's deputies.

 Greenwood listened quietly to Michael Rotondo's argument that he was entitled to six months more time. He gently corrected Rotondo by pointing to an appellate court decision ruling that family members don't get special treatment absent rare circumstances. And he praised Rotondo for his legal research.

 But Rotondo wasn't having any of it.

 Greenwood called the son's demand for six more months "outrageous."

 Rotondo called the judge's eviction order "outrageous."

 Greenwood tried to convince Rotondo to speak directly to his parents, Mark and Christina, while the judge waited. Rotondo refused, saying he'd made his legal arguments.

 Greenwood credited Rotondo's legal research in finding a prior case that appeared to show that family members get six months before an eviction. Rotondo dismissed his work as a simple internet search that took only minutes.

 Greenwood provided a copy of the appellate court decision that overrode the case that Rotondo cited. Rotondo maintained that what Greenwood was doing was wrong.

 Nothing was too small to attract Rotondo's attention: a notice incorrectly listed the room for today's appearance. Rotondo demanded an adjournment due to the mix-up: the judge noted that he'd made it just fine.

 As Rotondo's parents sat quietly in the court gallery, Rotondo appeared to crave the spotlight. At one point, the judge called Rotondo up to the bench. Rotondo noted that microphones placed by the media were on the lawyer's podium. He tried to take the podium up with him.

 Afteward, Rotondo called out to the television camera crews to meet him outside the courtroom for an interview.

 There, he again lambasted the judge's eviction order and vowed to appeal.

 When asked if he considered spending as much time looking for a new place to live as fighting the eviction, Rotondo replied that he wasn't ready to leave home.

 Asked how he interacted with his parents under the same roof, Rotondo said there were no incidents, but that he did not talk to his parents. When asked if he lived in the basement, Rotondo replied in a bedroom.

 In court, Rotondo noted that his parents did not support him by providing food or doing his laundry. But he insisted that they were providing for him with housing, in arguing why he should be granted another six months to find a new place to live.

 Exasperated, the judge at one point mentioned Airbnb in pointing out how easy it was to find a place to stay on short notice.

 After court, Rotondo said he had a business to support himself. But when asked about his business, Rotondo replied: "My business is my business."

 When all was said and done, the judge asked the parents' lawyer to come up with an eviction order that Greenwood would sign. No specified deadline was stated in court, but the lawyer mentioned that it would include reasonable time for Rotondo to vacate.

 Rotondo said later that he believed he was entitled to another 30 days, which would be plenty of time for him to file an appeal, delaying the eviction.

 After speaking to media, Rotondo left the courthouse to go back to his parents' house. ||||| A 30-year-old man was ordered to vacate his parents' Syracuse area home Tuesday after they sued him because he refused to leave.After the judge's ruling, son Michael Rotondo said, "This is outrageous" and said he would appeal the decision.Rotondo's parents said he wouldn't leave the house despite several notices. Rotondo claimed that, legally, he wasn't given enough notice to leave, maintaining that six months is a more reasonable timeframe.Parents Mark and Christina Rotondo said they began giving him notices as early as February 2, 2018. The parents said they also offered their son $1,100 to help him find a place of his own. Michael Rotondo said he did take the money, but it wasn't enough to live anywhere else.The judge asked adult protective services to check on the case as he's concerned about what's happening at the home.According to court filings, Rotondo doesn't contribute to the family's expenses and doesn't help out with the chores.His parents even say they've offered to help him get started on his own. Rotondo is calling his parent's effort "retaliatory."Rotondo, who runs a website business, moved back home eight years ago after losing a job.He said Tuesday that he plans to get some things from home and isn't sure where he will stay. ||||| Google Maps

 Camillus, NY -- Two Camillus parents are going to Onondaga County Supreme Court to force their 30-year-old son out of the family residence.

 "After a discussion with your Mother, we have decided that you must leave this house immediately," father Mark Rotondo wrote his son, in a letter filed with the court.

 But son Michael isn't going anywhere without a fight.

 The parents' lawyer, Anthony Adorante, said today that the couple is having trouble with their son and didn't know any other way to get him out. The couple declined comment for this story.

 Michael has, so far, ignored their demand to leave, according to the court complaint.

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