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Saturday, March 23, 2013

10 Things to Know for Today

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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their visit to the Children's Memorial at the Vad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel, Friday, March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Harvard's Siyani Chambers (1) celebrates with teammate Christian Webster, right, after defeating New Mexico 68-62 during a second-round game in the NCAA college basketball tournament in Salt Lake City Thursday, March 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. DEADLY SHOOTING AT QUANTICO

Three Marines, including the suspected gunman who was believed to be a staff member at the officer candidate school, are dead at the base in Virginia.

2. ASSAD MAKES PROMISE AFTER MOSQUE BOMBING

Syria's president vows to rid the country of Muslim extremists whom he blamed for a suicide bombing that killed 42 people, including a top Sunni preacher.

3. CYPRUS SEEKS ECONOMY-SAVING PLAN

Cypriot authorities are trying to put together a plan they hope will persuade international lenders to provide the money the country needs to avoid bankruptcy.

4. TWIST IN COLORADO CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR CASE

A parolee is critically wounded by Texas police after a 100-mph car chase, and investigators rush to determine whether he is linked to the slaying of Colorado's state prisons chief.

5. WHERE THE PRESIDENT IS IN THE MIDEAST

Wrapping up a three-day visit to Israel, Obama is paying his respects to heroes of Israel and victims of the Holocaust, as well as touring the birthplace of Jesus Christ.

6. WHAT'S IN STORE FOR TOP EARNERS

Democrats controlling the Senate appear on track to pass their first budget in four years, promising a second, almost $1 trillion round of tax increases.

7. WHERE STUDENTS ARE GETTING A HARSH MATH LESSON

Dozens of Chicago schools face closure to help shore up finances in a city with a $1 billion budget shortfall.

8. UPON FURTHER REVIEW ...

South Korean investigators say they mistakenly identified a Chinese Internet address as the source of a cyberattack that paralyzed tens of thousands of computers at banks and broadcasters.

9. WHAT THIS CROONER THINKS OF WINEHOUSE

Tony Bennett believes Amy Winehouse, who died at 27, lived a complete life because she was able to achieve her goal: becoming a respected musician.

10. IVY LEAGUERS PROVIDE FIRST SHOCKER OF NCAAs

Harvard ? known for producing U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices and Nobel Prize winners ? earns its first NCAA tournament win with a 68-62 upset of No. 3 seed New Mexico.

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Tom Cruise sets up page on Russian social network

This screen shot provided by the Russian social network Vkontakte shows a page set up by Hollywood star Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise has become the first Hollywood star to set up a page on the Russian social network Vkontakte. The "Top Gun" actor's page appeared Friday, announced by a message on Twitter saying "See you there!" in Russian. His profile picture is a poster for his new film "Oblivion," which comes out in Russia on April 11, two weeks before it opens in the U.S. (AP Photo/Vkontakte)

MOSCOW (AP) ? Tom Cruise has become the first Hollywood star to set up a page on the popular Russian social network Vkontakte.

The "Mission Impossible" actor's page appeared Friday, announced by a message on Twitter saying "See you there!" in Russian.

His profile picture is a poster for his new science fiction film "Oblivion," which comes out in Russia on April 11, two weeks before it opens in the U.S.

Cruise's page is a sign of Russia's increasing box office clout. Box office income rose 8 percent last year to $1.3 billion, the ninth-highest in the world, and is expected to grow 9 percent this year.

Vkontakte, which means "In Contact," dominates the Russian social media market with more than 40 million users ? about 10 times as many as use Facebook.

Associated Press

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Finally, Someone Figured Out How To Use Vine

Will Sasso, it is said, is an actor. If you were to, say, look for all of his Vines, you would also discover that this is the only man in the entire universe to use the medium correctly and, what's more, you will laugh all day long at his tiny, tiny videos.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LBim0BDl4F8/

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Bollywood actor, Super Fight League co-founder Sanjay Dutt, headed to prison

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, the co-founder of the Super Fight League, the largest active mixed martial arts promotion in India, was ordered Thursday by India's Supreme Courtto serve the remainder of a six-year sentence on gun charges stemming from a 1993 bombing in Mumbai that killed 257 people.

Dutt, 53, was originally convicted in 2007 under India's Terrorism and Disruptive Activities Act of possessing a rifle and a pistol given to him by the men convicted in the 1993 bombing that occurred in the financial district of Mumbai (then known as Bombay). In addition to the 257 people who died in the bombing, more than 700 were injured.

He was released on bail pending an appeal, but the Supreme Court upheld his conviction Thursday.

Dutt is a popular Bollywood actor who founded the Super Fight League last year. The promotion signed a five-year television deal with ESPN Star Sports, but it turns out that Dutt will be in prison for most of the term of that deal. Dutt has already served 18 months, but must serve an additional 4 1/2 years.

Dutt is the co-founder and the chairman of the Super Fight League. According to his biography on the Super Fight League web site, Dutt is India's "real action hero."

Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt needs no introduction, he is the co-founder and partner of Raj Kundra in Super Fight Promotions Pvt. Ltd. He is the face of MMA India and India's real action hero! He has the raw appeal he has that is so essential to being a star, and people can feel his presence even before they've sighted him. He is the real action hero of India! Sanjay Dutt's passion for fitness and fighting sports along with a vision for India's MMA future he has joined forces with Raj to Launch India's first professional Mixed Martial Arts league. Mr. Dutt is also the brand ambassador for the Boxing Federation of India.

The UFC has been attempting to break into India, but CEO Lorenzo Fertitta said Indians were just becoming aware of MMA. Feeder leagues like the Super Fight League would have been important for the UFC's efforts, to help build interest in the sport in the world's second-most populated country.

The Super Fight League has several recognizable fighters, including former UFC fighters Jeff Monson, Trevor Prangley and Neal Grove.

It has a show scheduled for March 29, but it is not clear if that show will go on.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/bollywood-actor-super-fight-league-creator-headed-prison-042842262--mma.html

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Prison Planet.com ? Man's Home Raided After Son's Facebook ...

Raven Clabough
New American
March 21, 2013

After seeing a photo of an 11-year-old boy holding a rifle on Facebook (photo shown cropped at right), New Jersey police and Department of Children and Families officials?raided the home of the boy?s father, Shawn Moore, a firearms instructor. Moore was not arrested or charged, but immediately sought the counsel of his lawyer.

Moore is a certified firearms instructor for the National Rifle Association, an NRA range safety officer, and a New Jersey hunter education instructor. He posted a photograph of his son wearing camouflage and holding his .22 rifle. The photograph caused quite a stir, even though the boy has a New Jersey hunting license and has passed the state?s hunter safety course.

?Someone called family services about the photo,? said Evan Nappen, an attorney representing Shawn Moore. ?It led to an incredible, heavy-handed raid on his house. They wanted to see his gun safe, his guns and search his house. They even threatened to take his kids.?

On March 16, Moore?s wife texted her husband to tell him that the Carneys Point Police Department and the New Jersey Department of Children and Families had raided their home. Moore quickly called Nappen and rushed back to his home to find police demanding to check his guns.

In response, Moore handed his phone to the officers so that they could speak to Nappen.

?If you have a warrant, you?re coming in,? Nappen told the officers. ?If you don?t, then you?re not. That?s what privacy is all about.?

Moore, having heard what Nappen told the officers on his speakerphone, asked the officers to leave his home. He later wrote a post about his encounter on the Delaware Open Carry website.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

?I was told I was being unreasonable and that I was acting suspicious because I wouldn?t open my safe,? Moore wrote on theDelaware Open Carry website. ?They told me they were going to get a search warrant. I told them to go ahead.?

According to Nappen, the police wanted an inventory of his firearms.

?We said, ?no way, it?s not happening?,? he said. ?This is a guy who is completely credentialed and his son is also credentialed.?

Nappen contends that the uproar over the photograph is entirely unfounded.

?If you look at the picture, his finger isn?t even on the trigger? ?which is proper,? Nappen told Fox News. ?If half of Hollywood could follow that rule, we?d be thankful.?

Nappen contends that the entire incident calls into question several of Moore?s constitutional rights.

?He has a Fourth Amendment right and he?s not going to give up his Fourth Amendment right or his Second Amendment right,? he said. ?They didn?t have a warrant ? so see you later.?

While the Department of Children and Families has not confirmed or denied the raid, spokesperson Kristen Brown explains, ?The department has a child abuse hotline for the state of New Jersey and anybody can make a call to that hotline. We are required to follow up on every single allegation that comes into the central registry.?

She did add that it is not the role of the Department of Children and Families to peruse Facebook photos of children holding weapons, but to investigate cases of child abuse and neglect.

Brown also told Fox News that it?s ?prudent and wise to protect children.?

?In many cases we may follow up on something and we don?t find any problems and the case is closed,? she said.

Meanwhile, any callers who report false allegations of abuse cannot be held liable, she noted.

?You can?t be prosecuted for making an allegation of child abuse ? even if it?s false,? she said.

Nappen points to the entire incident as a warning to gun owners.

?To make someone go through this because he posted a picture of his son with a .22 rifle on his Facebook page is pretty outrageous,? he said. ?Does that mean that anyone who posts a picture like that has to consent to a home inspection and a gun inspection? I don?t think so.?

A similar?incident took place across the Atlantic in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, where Ian Driscoll posted a photo of a toy with a toy gun on his Facebook page. Driscoll had taken a picture of an Action Man figure and a toy Alsatian dog that featured a toy mortar in the background and made it his profile picture on Facebook. A month later, there were five police officers at the door, two of them carrying submachine guns. After careful inspection of the model mortar, the police apologized and left.

Mr. Driscoll said, ?I was stunned. It was just mad. Five officers turned up in unmarked police cars.?

?They flashed the search warrant in my face and said it was lucky I was in so they didn?t have to break my door down,? he continued. ?Everyone has been laughing about it and I think it?s funny. It?s so stupid.?

Moore, however, did not find his situation quite so funny. He and his attorney are considering pursuing legal action against the state for its raid on the Moore home.

The police raid on Moore?s home is just one example of the anti-gun hysteria that is pervading the nation. Earlier this month, a seven-year-old Maryland boy named Josh Welch had been?suspended from school for turning a breakfast pastry into the shape of a pistol. The school then offered counseling for any children who witnessed the boy?s pastry gun.

Robin Ficker, a Montgomery County attorney hired by Welch?s father, is representing the family in an appeal to have the student?s record expunged. According to Ficker, this is the fourth time he has had to defend young children in cases where they have received suspensions for being accused of references to a weapon when there was in fact no weapon.

The Montgomery County incident prompted Maryland State Senator J.B. Jennings, a Republican representing Baltimore and Harford counties, to introduce a bill to prohibit principals ?from suspending or expelling a student who brings to school or possesses on school property a picture of a gun, a computer image of a gun, a facsimile of a gun or any other object that resembles a gun but serves another purpose.?

This article was posted: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 6:17 am

Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/mans-home-raided-after-sons-facebook-picture-shows-gun.html

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China's glamorous new first lady an instant internet hit

By Ben Blanchard

BEIJING (Reuters) - With a smile on her face, dressed in a simple black peacoat and carrying an elegant unbranded bag, China's new first lady, Peng Liyuan, stepped into the international limelight on Friday and became an instant internet sensation back home.

Stepping off the aircraft in Moscow - the first stop of President Xi Jinping's maiden foreign trip since assuming office - Peng's glamorous appearance and obvious affection for her portly husband caused Chinese microbloggers to swoon.

"So beautiful, Peng Liyuan, so beautiful! How composed, how magnanimous," wrote one user on China's popular Twitter-like service Sina Weibo.

"Who could not love such a lady as this and be insanely happy with her?" wrote another.

Taobao, an online shopping site similar to eBay and Amazon, quickly began offering for sale coats in the same style of Peng's, advertising it as "the same style as the first lady's".

Others wondered what brand her bag and shoes were.

"Her shoes are really classic, and who designed her bag?" wrote a third Weibo user.

Peng is best known in China as a singer, and for many years was arguably better known and certainly more popular than her husband.

People who have met her and know her say that Peng is vivacious and fun to be around, though she was ordered to take a back seat after Xi became vice president in 2008 as he was being groomed for state power.

But she is expected to be given high-profile events of her own to attend on Xi's sweep through Russia, Tanzania, South Africa and the Republic of Congo on a week-long trip, as the government tries to soften the image of China abroad.

Peng has won praise for her advocacy for pet causes, most notably for children living with HIV/AIDS, and may visit charities related to this while abroad.

Unlike the baby-kissing politicians of the West, China's Communist Party works hard to keep its top leaders from appearing too human - to the point that for many, even their official birthdates and the names of their children are regarded as a state secret.

Xi and Peng are different. Their romance has been the subject of dozens of glowing reports and pictorials in state media.

"When he comes home, I've never thought of it as though there's some leader in the house. In my eyes, he's just my husband," Peng gushed in an interview with a state-run magazine in 2007, describing Xi as frugal, hardworking and down-to-earth.

Peng is Xi's second wife, and the two have a daughter studying at Harvard under an assumed name. Xi divorced his first wife, the daughter of a diplomat.

Chinese first wives have traditionally kept a low profile over the past few decades, because of the experience of Jiang Qing, the widow of the founder of Communist China, Mao Zedong.

Jiang was the leader of the "Gang of Four" that wielded supreme power during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. She was given a suspended death sentence in 1981 for the deaths of tens of thousands during that period of chaos.

(This story corrects the year Xi became vice president to 2008)

(Additional reporting by Megha Rajagopalan and Beijing newsroom, and Anita Li in SHANGHAI; Editing by Nick Macfie)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-glamorous-first-lady-instant-internet-hit-121341338.html

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Women abused as children more likely to have children with autism

Mar. 20, 2013 ? Women who experienced physical, emotional, or sexual abuse as children are more likely to have a child with autism than women who were not abused, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Those who experienced the most serious abuse had the highest likelihood of having a child with autism -- three-and-a-half times more than women who were not abused.

"Our study identifies a completely new risk factor for autism," said lead author Andrea Roberts, research associate in the HSPH Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. "Further research to understand how a woman's experience of abuse is associated with autism in her children may help us better understand the causes of autism and identify preventable risk factors."

The study appears online March 20, 2013 and in the May 2013 print issue of JAMA Psychiatry. It is the first to explore the relationship between a mother's exposure to childhood abuse and risk of autism in her children.

The authors examined data from more than 50,000 women enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study II. They found that it was not just women exposed to the most serious levels of abuse who had higher risk of having a child with autism, but also a large number of women who experienced moderate abuse. While about 2% of women reported the most serious abuse, even women in the top 25% of abuse severity -- which included mostly women who experienced more moderate levels of abuse -- were 60% more likely to have a child with autism compared with women who did not experience abuse. These results suggest that childhood abuse is not only very harmful for the person who directly experiences it, but may also increase risk for serious disabilities in the next generation, the authors said.

Delving further, the researchers looked at nine pregnancy-related risk factors to see if they were linked to higher risk of having a child with autism in women who were abused as children. These nine risk factors -- including gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and smoking -- have been previously associated with an increased likelihood of having a child with autism.

The researchers did find that women who had experienced abuse as children had a higher risk for each of the pregnancy-related risk factors that were examined. Surprisingly, though, those risk factors accounted for only 7% of the increased likelihood of having a child with autism among women who were abused.

Given that these factors accounted for so little of the association between mother's experience of abuse and risk of autism in her children, the authors speculated that other factors may be playing a role. One possibility, they said, is that long-lasting effects of abuse on women's biological systems, such as the immune system and stress-response system, are responsible for increasing their likelihood of having a child with autism. More research is needed to tease out the mechanisms involved in the maternal childhood abuse-autism link, the authors said.

"Childhood abuse is associated with a wide array of health problems in the person who experiences it, including both mental health outcomes like depression and anxiety, and physical health outcomes like obesity and lung disease. Our research suggests that the effects of childhood abuse may also reach across generations," said senior author Marc Weisskopf, associate professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology at HSPH.

Given the findings in this study, the authors suggest increasing efforts to prevent childhood abuse, and suggest that clinicians focus more strongly on limiting pregnancy-related autism risk factors, particularly among women who experienced abuse in childhood.

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Andrea L. Roberts et al. Association of Maternal Exposure to Childhood Abuse With Elevated Risk for Autism in OffspringAutism and Maternal Exposure to Childhood Abuse. JAMA Psychiatry, 2013; : 1 DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.447

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