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Washington police are investigating whether NBC's David Gregory broke the law by holding up what appeared to be a 30-round gun magazine on Sunday's Meet the Press despite being denied permission by police to bring the weaponry on the show.
It is illegal in the district to possess a "large capacity ammunition feeding device."
Gwendolyn Crump, director of the Office of Communications for the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, told ABC News, "NBC contacted MPD inquiring if they could utilize a high capacity magazine for their segment. NBC was informed that possession of a high capacity magazine is not permissible and their request was denied. This matter is currently being investigated."
Another Washington DC police officer and spokesperson Tisha Gant said the situation was "being investigated," but would give no other details including what exactly is under investigation.
A section in the D.C. criminal code says "no person in the District shall possess, sell, or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm." The section stipulates that "the term large capacity ammunition feeding device means a magazine," or similar devices.
Gregory held up what looked like a 30-bullet gun magazine when interviewing the National Rifle Association's executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre on Sunday. Gregory pressed the NRA head on whether fewer children would have been killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting on Dec. 14th if the shooter had access to less ammunition.
Since the interview, conservative media and gun rights activists said that Gregory appeared to have violated the district's gun law. Police subsquently confirmed they were investigating.
NBC News declined to comment through a spokesperson.
ABC News' George Sanchez and Steven Portnoy contributed to this report.
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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) ? Most of the thousands of children who call the annual Santa-tracking operation at a Colorado Air Force Base on Christmas Eve ask the usual questions: "Where's Santa, and when will he get here?"
So volunteer Sara Berghoff was caught off-guard Monday when a child called to see if Santa could be especially kind this year to the families affected by the Connecticut school shooting.
"I'm from Newtown, Connecticut, where the shooting was," she remembers the child asking. "Is it possible that Santa can bring extra presents so I can deliver them to the families that lost kids?"
Sara, just 13 herself, was surprised but gathered her thoughts quickly. "If I can get ahold of him, I'll try to get the message to him," she told the child.
Sara was one of hundreds of volunteers at NORAD Tracks Santa who answered more than 41,000 calls by Monday afternoon, program spokeswoman Marisa Novobilski said. The calls were on pace to exceed last year's record of 107,000.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, a joint U.S.-Canada command responsible for protecting the skies over both nations, tracks Santa from its home at Peterson Air Force Base.
NORAD and its predecessor have been fielding Christmas Eve phone calls from children ? and a few adults ? since 1955. That's when a newspaper ad listed the wrong phone number for kids to call Santa. Callers ended up getting the Continental Air Defense Command, which later became NORAD. CONAD commanders played along, and the ritual has been repeated every year since.
After 57 years, NORAD can predict what most kids will ask. Its 11-page playbook for volunteers includes a list of nearly 20 questions and answers, including how old is Santa (at least 16 centuries) and has Santa ever crashed into anything (no).
But kids still manage to ask the unexpected, including, "Does Santa leave presents for dogs?"
A sampling of anecdotes from the program this year:
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THE REAL DEAL: A young boy called to ask if Santa was real.
Air Force Maj. Jamie Humphries, who took the call, said, "I'm 37 years old, and I believe in Santa, and if you believe in him as well, then he must be real."
The boy turned from the phone and yelled to others in the room, "I told you guys he was real!"
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DON'T WORRY, HE'LL FIND YOU: Glenn Barr took a call from a 10-year-old who wasn't sure if he would be sleeping at his mom's house or his dad's and was worried about whether Santa would find him.
"I told him Santa would know where he was and not to worry," Barr said.
Another child asked if he was on the nice list or the naughty list.
"That's a closely guarded secret, and only Santa knows," Barr replied.
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TOYS IN HEAVEN: A young boy who called from Missouri asked when Santa would drop off toys in heaven.
His mother got on the line and explained to Jennifer Eckels, who took the call, that the boy's younger sister died this year.
"He kept saying 'in heaven,'" Eckels said. She told him, "I think Santa headed there first thing."
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BEST OF: Choice questions and comments wound up posted on a flip chart.
"Big sister wanted to add her 3-year-old brother to the naughty list," one read.
"Are there police elves?" said another.
"How much to adopt one of Santa's reindeer?"
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INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR: NORAD got calls from 220 countries and territories last year, and non-English-speakers called this year as well.
Volunteers who speak other languages get green Santa hats and a placard listing their languages so organizers can find them quickly.
"Need a Spanish speaker!" one organizer called as he rushed out of one of three phone rooms.
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HE KNOWS WHEN YOU'RE AWAKE: At NORAD's suggestion, volunteers often tell callers that Santa won't drop off the presents until all the kids in the home are asleep.
"Ohhhhhhh," said an 8-year-old from Illinois, as if trying to digest a brand-new fact.
"I'm going to be asleep by 4 o'clock," said a child from Virginia.
"Thank you so much for that information," said a grateful mom from Michigan.
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CHRISTMAS EVE IN AFGHANISTAN: Five U.S. service personnel answered calls from Afghanistan for about 90 minutes through a conferencing hookup.
"They had a great time," said Novobilski, the program spokeswoman.
NORAD wanted to set up a call center in Afghanistan but that proved too complex, she said.
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HEY, MR. ELF: "Mr. Elf," said one caller, "This is Adam, and I've been really good this year."
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FOR GEARHEADS: For people who want to know the specs of Santa's sleigh, NORAD offers a trove of tidbits, including:
Weight at takeoff: 75,000 GD (gumdrops).
Propulsion: 9 RP (reindeer power).
Fuel: Hay, oats and carrots (for reindeer).
Emissions: Classified.
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Track Santa online at http://www.noradsanta.org/
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When we focus on the last year, and what the next year might bring, please remember these simple things:
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SocialSafe, the social media back-up tool co-founded by Julian Ranger?s iBundle and 1minus1, has announced that it?s raised ?250,000 (~$400k) in what?s being called a Series A round. That?s because Ranger, who is a prominent angel investor in the UK, has already funded the startup to the tune of ?300k, bringing the total raised by SocialSafe to ?550k (~$885k).
Today?s round comes from Marco Sodi, plus other unnamed UK-based angels, and is said to be used to ?fast-track? the technical development of the app to add new functionality such as analytics and support for more networks, including Pinterest.
SocialSafe is a Mac/Windows app built using Adobe Air which lets users download and back-up their content from social media accounts, with support for Facebook, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and Viadeo. The resulting archive is then searchable or can be browsed via a handy calendar view.
Interestingly, however, unlike the likes of Backupify, SocialSafe shuns the Cloud for the actual back-ups. Instead all data is stored locally on a user?s PC where, of course, it can still be manually pushed to the Cloud using a complementary online back-up service. I?m told that this is in-part because the Term of Service of most social networks and their associated developer APIs prohibit storing a full duplicate of their data in the Cloud. It also ensures that SocialSafe never sees a user?s data, significantly strengthening its privacy card. In the future, however, the company plans to add third-party Cloud storage support to make a DIY approach simpler.
As for why you?d use SocialSafe over Twitter?s own slowly rolling out back-up functionality, or Facebook and LinkedIn?s existing archive support, it?s fair to say that the app goes a lot deeper in terms of exactly what data is backed up and the way it makes it browsable. For example, Twitter only exports a user?s Tweets, not their follow/follower graph, DMs, or mentions, all of which SocialSafe retrieves.
In the future, SocialSafe?s competitive advantage should also extend to what the startup is calling ?smart visualisation of usage insights?, which presumably pushes the app towards social media professionals/companies, not just consumers. In fact, when I met up with Ranger recently, he did suggest that one use for an app like SocialSafe is for regulatory compliance, where in the UK, for example, companies can be required to keep a record of all official communication. And, yes, that could include Tweets and Facebook Page updates.
SocialSafe is a simple, fun and effective tool that enables Facebook users to store and manage a copy of their Facebook data on their own computer. This includes photos, tagged photos, profile information, contact details, with additional data being included in future upgrades. SocialSafe offers a simple, fun and effective solution for Facebook users. It allows them to download their photos, including any that they have been tagged in, see snapshots of friends found & lost over time and safeguard...
? Learn moreFounded by Julian Ranger, an angel investor since 2007 and an entrepreneur since he formed his first business STASYS, in 1989, iBundle is an innovation hub for software and web companies, providing innovative new tools and services for their target markets. Julian grew STASYS to a £17m+ business with 230 staff with subsidiaries in the US, Australia and Germany before selling it to Lockheed Martin in 2005. Julian has made several angel investments in diverse business such as Astrobotic (robots...
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Christmas is right around the corner, and for all of you procrastinators out there, we recently shared our handy guide to last-minute gifts that can be whipped up in the 11th hour. We also have some great suggestions for non-consumerist gifts of time and if you're crafty, don't forget to check out our DIY guide for cool make-it-yourself gift ideas like these useful texting gloves and this curiously strong solar charger upcycled from an old Altoids tin. For a fun activity to do with the whole family, check out our homemade holiday greeting card and DIY Christmas cracker tutorials, and before putting your gifts under the tree, don't miss our guide to eco-friendly gift wrap alternatives.
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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Regional African heads of state demanded on Friday that rebels in the Central African Republic, who have seized several town in the past week, pull back their forces to original positions and accept peace talks with the government.
The rebels of the Seleka alliance, complaining that President Francois Bozize had failed to honour the terms of a 2007 peace deal, launched a lightning attack which has brought them to about 300 km (186 miles) from the capital Bangui.
The heads of state including Ali Bongo of Gabon, Denis Sassou N'guesso of Congo Republic, Idriss Deby of Chad and representatives from Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, gave the rebels a week to pull back to their original positions.
"The heads of state and delegations agreed to exclude any military option as a solution to the crisis in the Central African Republic. They called for an immediate cessation of hostilities," a statement after the meeting said.
The statement from leaders of the Central African regional bloc, did not say what would happen if the rebels failed to withdraw.
It said negotiations between the rebels and the government will be held as soon as possible in Libreville, Gabon, on an unspecified date to revisit the terms of the previous peace accords.
"If there is a resurgence of violence in the Central African Republic, it is because the previous agreements did not work well," Chadian President Deby said after the meeting.
"This is why the opposition, the rebels and the government must go back figure out what did not work and find a way to make it work," Deby, who hosted the emergency regional summit, added.
The rebels, who decided on Thursday to halt their advance on the capital ahead of the N'Djamena meeting, were not immediately available to comment.
The Seleka alliance had said it was open to peace talks but would remain in the territory it has secured during a two-week advance, rejecting an appeal from the United Nations Security Council to withdraw from captured towns.
Several thousand people protested in the streets of Bangui on Friday afternoon over the rebel advance.
Since independence in 1960 from France, the Central African Republic has endured decades of instability caused by a mix of rebellions, banditry, ethnic tensions and the spill-over of conflicts in neighbouring Chad, Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo.
As a result, major investment in its timber, gold, uranium and diamond deposits have been discouraged. Some of the diamond deposits are now in rebel-held territory.
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Dec. 21, 2012 ? The causes of learning problems associated with an inherited brain tumor disorder are much more complex than scientists had anticipated, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report.
The disorder, neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), is among the most common inherited pediatric brain cancer syndromes. Children born with NF1 can develop low-grade brain tumors, but their most common problems are learning and attention difficulties.
"While one of our top priorities is halting tumor growth, it's also important to ensure that these children don't have the added challenges of living with learning and behavioral problems," says senior author David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology. "Our results suggest that learning problems in these patients can be caused by more than one factor. Successful treatment depends on identifying the biological reasons underlying the problems seen in individual patients with NF1."
The study appears online in Annals of Neurology.
According to Gutmann, who is director of the Washington University Neurofibromatosis Center, scientists are divided when considering the basis for NF1-associated learning abnormalities and attention deficits.
Mutations in the Nf1 gene can disrupt normal regulation of an important protein called RAS in the hippocampus, a brain region critical for learning. Initial work from other investigators had shown that increased RAS activity due to defective Nf1 gene function impairs memory and attention in some Nf1 mouse models.
However, earlier studies by Gutmann and collaborator David F. Wozniak, PhD, research professor in psychiatry, showed that a mutation in the Nf1 gene lowers levels of dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in attention. In this Nf1 mouse model, Gutmann and his colleagues found that the branches of dopamine-producing nerve cells were unusually short, limiting their ability to make and distribute dopamine and leading to reduced attention in those mice.
The new research suggests that both sides may be right.
In the latest study, postdoctoral fellow Kelly Diggs-Andrews, PhD, found that the branches of dopamine-producing nerve cells that normally extend into the hippocampus are shorter in Nf1 mice. As a result, dopamine levels are lower in that part of the brain.
Charles F. Zorumski, MD, the Samuel B. Guze Professor and head of the Department of Psychiatry, showed that the low dopamine levels disrupts the ability of nerve cells in the hippocampus to modulate the way they communicate with each other. These communication adjustments are a primary way the brain creates memories.
Researchers then found that giving Nf1 mice L-DOPA, which increases dopamine levels, restored their nerve cell branch lengths to normal and corrected the hippocampal communication defect. L-DOPA also eliminated the memory and learning deficits in these mice.
"These results and the earlier findings suggest that there are a variety of ways that NF1 may cause cognitive dysfunction in people," Gutmann says. "Some may have problems caused only by increased RAS function, others may be having problems attributable to reduced dopamine, and a third group may be having difficulties caused by both RAS and dopamine abnormalities."
To customize patient therapy, Gutmann and his colleagues are now working to develop ways to quantify the contributions of dopamine and RAS to NF1-related learning disorders.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Khalif Wyatt had never been in Madison Square Garden let alone played there.
The Philadelphia native left the building on Saturday after scoring a career-high 33 points and being the key to Temple beating No. 3 Syracuse 83-79 in the first Chevrolet Gotham Classic.
"I always wanted to play here because all the great players had a chance to play here," the 6-foot-4 senior said. "This was a chance for us to show everyone that Temple is a real program."
Anthony Lee had a career-high 21 points for the Owls (9-2), who were coming off a 10-point home loss to Canisius.
"I don't think we would have won today without the loss in the last game," Temple coach Fran Dunphy said. "Our guys did a great job today. I wish it was worth more than one victory."
This is the fifth straight season Temple has beaten a top 10 team while being unranked.
The latest win in that stretch game with the combination of Wyatt from the outside and Lee inside.
"We wanted to go inside and out and that meant me going up strong and fighting for rebounds," said Lee, who had nine rebounds, five offensive, and worked the baseline again and again against Syracuse's vaunted zone. "That's playing the Temple game."
Dunphy said Wyatt challenged himself after a poor game against Canisius.
"He made some really good plays when we were struggling to score and had to stay in the game," Dunphy said.
The Orange led by two at halftime but never took a lead in the second half even though there were four ties, the last at 59-59 with 10:23 to play.
C.J. Fair had a career-high 25 points for Syracuse (10-1), which had its 52-game regular-season nonconference winning streak snapped. Jim Boeheim remained at 900 wins, two behind Bob Knight for second place all-time among Division I men's coaches. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski has 938 wins.
Wyatt made all 15 of his free throw attempts and Lee was 11 of 14 as the Owls were 29 of 36 overall.
Syracuse was 19 of 34 from the line including missing four in the final 6 minutes when it was mostly a one-possession game and point guard Michael Carter-Williams finished 7 of 15.
"They made free throws, we didn't," Boeheim said. "You don't like to say it comes down to that, but when you miss 15 free throws it's tough to win any game."
Carter-Williams took the heat.
"If I make free throws we win the game," he said.
Temple hit three 3-pointers in an 11-3 run that gave it the lead for good. Scootie Randall started the run with a 3 that broke the 59-all tie. He closed the run with another 3, his only points of the game.
The 3-point line also hurt the Orange, who were 2 of 12 from behind the arc while Temple was 8 of 24.
"It was one of those nights when it wouldn't fall," said Fair, whose only 3-point attempt of the game brought the Orange within 74-72 with 3:01 left but the Owls went 11 of 15 from the free throw line over the final 2:30.
Temple's last field goal was an offensive rebound by Quenton DeCosey with 5:41 left that gave the Owls a 72-66 lead.
Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson had four points and 10 rebounds for the Owls.
Brandon Triche had 17 points for Syracuse. Baye Moussa Keita added 12 and Carter-Williams, who leads the nation in assists at 10.7 per game, had 13 points and six assists.
"Wyatt was able to create a lot of contact and that got him to the free throw line," Carter-Williams said. "They didn't play off me and I have to get used to that. We have to learn from this. It's a long season."
Temple missed 10 of its first 12 shots in falling behind 19-10. The Owls, behind Wyatt who had 20 points in the first half, started hitting shots against the Orange's zone defense and they made nine of their next 14 shots and tied the game at 35. Syracuse scored five straight points but Wyatt capped his big half with a 3-pointer with 17 seconds left and Temple was within 40-38 at halftime.
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Following the Newtown, Conn., shooting rampage, the White House releases a video in response to the public outcry for stricter gun regulations.
By NBC News staff and wire reports
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says his administration has received an outpouring of support for stricter gun laws following last week's elementary school massacre in Connecticut, telling respondents to an online petition: "We hear you."
The president said in a video released Friday that he has been encouraged that many gun owners have said there are steps the nation can take to prevent more deadly shootings, "steps that both protect our rights and protect our kids."
"I will do everything in my power as president to advance these efforts because if there's even one thing we can do as a country to protect our children, we have a responsibility to try," Obama said.
Obama was holding a moment of silence on Friday morning at the White House marking one week since the shooting that killed 20 children and six adults at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. The National Rifle Association, the country's foremost gun lobby, was holding a news conference on Friday in the aftermath of the shootings.
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The president has challenged the NRA to "do some self-reflection" and join a broad effort to reduce gun violence. The organization said Tuesday it would offer "meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again."
The men and women who first arrived at Sandy Hook Elementary School tells TODAY's Erica Hill that "this is something that is going to take us a long time to work through."
In Friday's video, the president responded to a "We the People" petition on the White House website that allows the public to submit petitions. Nearly 200,000 people have urged Obama to address gun control in one petition and petitions related to gun violence have amassed more than 400,000 signatures.
Obama has directed Vice President Joe Biden and a team of Cabinet officials to offer concrete proposals by next month on how to tighten gun laws and improve Americans' access to mental healthcare, strengthen school safety and address a culture that glorifies guns and violence.
Biden's group is considering reinstating a ban on military-style assault weapons, which expired in 2004, closing loopholes that allow gun buyers to avoid background checks and restricting high-capacity magazines.
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A nation mourns after the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at Sandy Hook Elementary, which left 20 children and six staff members dead.
Gun-control measures have faced strong opposition in Congress for the past decade but Obama has suggested he intends to make it a key part of his agenda next year. In the video, he urged the public to become involved in
"If we're going to succeed, it's going to take a sustained effort of mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, law enforcement and responsible gun owners, organizing, speaking up, calling their members of Congress as many times as it takes, standing up and saying 'enough' on behalf of all our kids," Obama said.
Meanwhile, in a letter addressed to the people of Newtown, Michelle Obama said she was "so proud of the outpouring of love and support that has come from every corner of America" in the wake of the tragedy.
Writing in the Hartford Courant newspaper, she added: "As a mother of two young daughters, my heart aches for you and your families. Like so many Americans, I wish there were something - anything - I could do or say to ease your anguish.
"As my husband has said, in the coming weeks, he will use all the powers of his office to engage citizens from across this country to find ways to prevent tragedies like this one. And please know that every minute of every day, we are thinking of you, and praying for you, and holding you and your families in our hearts as you begin the slow and wrenching work of healing and moving forward."
A massive, unexpected wave of goodwill began online with a simple idea: "Imagine if we all committed 20 acts of kindness to honor the lost children of Newtown." NBC News National and International Correspondent Ann Curry sent the message on Twitter and Facebook. The idea has evolved into a viral effort known as "26 Acts of Kindness," in honor of the students and faculty who died at Sandy Hook Elementary.
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Human skulls deliberately warped into strange, alien-like shapes have been unearthed in a 1,000-year-old cemetery in Mexico, researchers say.
The practice of deforming skulls of children as they grew was common in Central America, and these findings suggest the tradition spread farther north than had been thought, scientists added.
The cemetery was discovered by residents of the small Mexican village of Onavas in 1999 as they were building an irrigation canal. It is the first pre-Hispanic cemetery found in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
The site, referred to as El Cementerio, contained the remains of 25 human burials. Thirteen of them had deformed skulls, which were elongate and pointy at the back, and five had mutilated teeth. [ See Photos of the 'Alien' Skulls ]
Dental mutilation involves filing or grinding teeth into odd shapes, while cranial deformation involves distorting the normal growth of a child's skull by applying force ? for example, by using cloths to bind wooden boards against their heads.
"Cranial deformation has been used by different societies in the world as a ritual practice, or for distinction of status within a group or to distinguish between social groups," said researcher Cristina Garc?a Moreno, an archaeologist at Arizona State University. "The reason why these individuals at El Cementerio deformed their skulls is still unknown."
"The most common comment I've read from people that see the pictures of cranial deformation has been that they think that those people were 'aliens,'" Garc?a added. "I could say that some say that as a joke, but the interesting thing is that some do think so. Obviously we are talking about human beings, not of aliens."
Of the 25 burials, 17 were children between 5 months and 16 years of age. The high number of children seen at the site could suggest inept cranial deformation killed them due to excessive force against the skull. The children had no signs of disease that caused their deaths.
Although cranial deformation and dental mutilation were common features among the pre-Hispanic populations of Mesoamerica and western Mexico, scientists had not seen either practice in Sonora or the American Southwest, which share a common pre-Hispanic culture. The researchers suggest the people at El Cementerio had been influenced by recent migrants from the south.
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"The most important implication would be to extend the northern boundary of the Mesoamerican influence," Garc?a told LiveScience.
A number of skeletons also were found with earrings, nose rings, bracelets, pendants and necklaces made from seashells and snails from the Gulf of California. One person was buried with a turtle shell on the chest. It remains uncertain why some of these people were buried with ornaments while others were not, or ? another mystery ? why only one of the 25 skeletons was female.
During the next field season, the researchers aim to determine the cemetery's total size and hope to find more burials to get a clearer idea of the society's burial customs. "With new information, we also hope to determine whether there was any interaction between these and Mesoamerican societies ? how it was and when it happened," they said.
Garc?a and her colleagues completed their analysis of the skeletal remains in November. They plan to submit their research to either the journal American Antiquity or the journal Latin American Antiquity.
Editor's Note: This article was updated to correct the spelling of El Cementerio, which had been spelled El Cemeterio.
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Adam Lanza's hard drive is destroyed. Mr.?Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 27 people and himself in Newtown, Conn., last week, smashed his computer the morning of the attacks. Investigators are trying to put Adam Lanza's hard drive back together -- but even if they fail, there might be other ways to see what Lanza was doing before the shootings.
Adam Lanza's hard drive was smashed the morning he shot students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Here, a police cruiser sits in the driveway of the house where Lanza lived with his mother Nancy.
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EnlargeAs children return to school in Newtown, Conn., police are beginning to sift through available forensic evidence in hopes of determining why gunman Adam Lanza killed his mother, 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and himself. It's a process complicated, though, by the fact that Mr. Lanza didn't leave much of a technological trail for investigators to follow.
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First, there's Lanza's own computer, which might have held clues about who he communicated with or what he was doing leading up to the attack.
On the morning of the attack, Lanza apparently removed the hard drive from his computer and destroyed it with a hammer or screwdriver, doing such a thorough job that the Connecticut State Police, assisted by the FBI, haven't been able to recover any information from it yet. A source told The Daily Beast that the FBI's computer analysis team is trying to put the pieces of the hard drive back together, but hasn't had any success yet in recovering Lanza's e-mails or the websites he visited.
That's not to say that that information is gone forever, though. If investigators can't coax any information from the mangled hard drive, they might be able to find out about Lanza's online activities from other sources.
Many e-mail providers, such as Yahoo and Google, store data on their servers for a period of time, meaning that police might be able to subpoena Lanza's provider for access to whatever data they have. Google also stores information about users' searches and other online activity indefinitely, although it anonymizes IP addresses after 9 months, making it impossible to tell what a given user was doing online prior to that time.
Google says it tries to strike a balance between respecting users' online privacy and complying with government requests for information, and this might be a case where the company deems it important to cooperate with law enforcement.
In terms of overall online activity, though, Lanza kept a pretty low profile. In contrast to many people his age, the 20-year-old didn't have a Facebook or Twitter account.
Early reports of the shooting named Lanza's older brother Ryan as a possible suspect, and several news outlets mistakenly published pictures of Ryan taken from his Facebook account.
In the absence of the kind of public journaling often seen on social media sites, law enforcement will have to rely more heavily on interviews and other sources to determine a possible motive for the shooting.
Lanza seems to have guarded his digital privacy pretty closely -- but as we've seen in previous cases involving computer privacy, it's awfully difficult not to leave behind some kind of trail of e-mails and online behavior. Even if Lanza's hard drive yields no clues, investigators could still find a way to reconstruct some of his activity in the days and months leading up to the shooting.
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The leader of the Alliance party David Ford MLA has said that Parties should be working on a cross-community basis and not on a cross-unionist basis.
Reacting to the joint Unionist statement from the DUP and UUP, Mr Ford hit out at he termed was parties working in ?tribal blocks?.
?The only solution to deliver a shared future must come from a consensus from all groups and not from parties working in different tribal blocks. We will not achieve anything if the Unionist Parties put forward their demands on behalf of one section of the community and thus turning the debate into one in which issues are won or lost for different sections,? he said.
?What we need to do is to reach agreement on these issues for all sections and not just one grouping.
?At the weekend I wrote to all Party Leaders proposing that a leaders meeting take place which I am glad is happening on Thursday. This is a far better way to resolve difficult issues such as flags, parading and community relations. It will be very hard to reach consensus if parties revert back to their tribal silos.
?Solutions to these issues can only be found on a cross-community basis, not on a cross-unionist basis.
?The Alliance Party will continue to work on behalf of all people and I would urge Unionist Leaders to move away from just working for one group. I would remind Peter Robinson that he is the First Minister for Northern Ireland and not just the unionist community. Mike Nesbitt has previously said that he wants to work for everybody, and yet he is prioritising only one section of the community.?
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, gave his reaction:?I am looking forward to meeting with the other party leaders on Thursday, when we can discuss the current issues affecting us all. We need to move forward on all these issues jointly and on the basis of equality.
?I also call on Unionist leaders to recognise that they need to do more to bring to an end these UVF organised protests and violence.?
TUV leader Jim Allister said: ?Of course, unionists should co-operate in defence of the Union and in thus a serious forum could have a role. However, with the assault on our Unionist culture rooted in the empowerment of IRA/Sinn Fein, TUV expectations will be limited in respect of a forum initiated by those who sustain McGuinness and Co at the top and heart of government.
?This empowerment of Sinn Fein is the fountain head of the constant flow of concessions.
?A forum turning a blind eye to the source of the problem and the anti-democratic nature of the present Stormont structures is unlikely deliver a meaningful and lasting advance for unionism.
?TUV has positive proposals on the flags issue and will canvass support for definitive progress both within any forum and wider afield.
?TUV will evaluate its ongoing involvement in any forum subject to its product.?
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Peter Andre’s brother Andrew Andrew has died of kidney cancer. The 38-year-old singer is devastated after Andrew, 54, passed away on Sunday morning with his family by his side. Peter’s rep issued a statement, saying, “Peter is devastated. He was very, very, very close to his brother. This is the first family member Peter has ...
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USC scientists who track Internet outages throughout the world noted a spike in outages due to Hurricane Sandy, with almost twice as much of the Internet down in the U.S. as usual.
Previous research by this team has shown that on any given day, about 0.3 percent of the Internet is down for one reason or another. Just before Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, that number was around 0.2 percent in the U.S. (pretty good, by global standards) but once the storm made landfall, it jumped to 0.43 percent and took about four days to return to normal, according to a new report by scientists at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
"On a national scale, the amount of outage is small, showing how robust the Internet is. However, this significant increase in outages shows the large impact Sandy had on our national infrastructure," said John Heidemann, who led the team that tracked an analyzed the data. Heidemann is a research professor of computer science and project leader in the Computer Networks Division of ISI.
Heidemann worked with graduate student Lin Quan and research staff member Yuri Pradkin, both also from ISI, sending tiny packets of data known as "pings" to networks and waiting for "echoes," or responses. Though some networksthose with a firewallwill not respond to pings, this method has been shown to provide a statistically reasonable picture of when parts of the Internet are active or down.
The team was also able to pinpoint where the outages were occurring, and noted a spike in outages in New Jersey and New York after Sandy made landfall.
Their research was published as a technical report on the ISI webpage on December 17, and the raw data will be made available to other scientists who would like to analyze it.
The data is not yet specific enough to say exactly how many individuals were affected by the outage, but does provide solid information about the scale and location of outages, which could inform Internet service providers on how best to allocate resources to respond to natural disasters.
"Our work measures the virtual world to peer into the physical," said Heidemann. "We are working to improve the coverage of our techniques to provide a nearly real-time view of outages across the entire Internet. We hope that our approach can help first responders quickly understand the scope of evolving natural disasters."
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perkinsr@usc.edu
213-740-9226
University of Southern California
USC scientists who track Internet outages throughout the world noted a spike in outages due to Hurricane Sandy, with almost twice as much of the Internet down in the U.S. as usual.
Previous research by this team has shown that on any given day, about 0.3 percent of the Internet is down for one reason or another. Just before Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, that number was around 0.2 percent in the U.S. (pretty good, by global standards) but once the storm made landfall, it jumped to 0.43 percent and took about four days to return to normal, according to a new report by scientists at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
"On a national scale, the amount of outage is small, showing how robust the Internet is. However, this significant increase in outages shows the large impact Sandy had on our national infrastructure," said John Heidemann, who led the team that tracked an analyzed the data. Heidemann is a research professor of computer science and project leader in the Computer Networks Division of ISI.
Heidemann worked with graduate student Lin Quan and research staff member Yuri Pradkin, both also from ISI, sending tiny packets of data known as "pings" to networks and waiting for "echoes," or responses. Though some networksthose with a firewallwill not respond to pings, this method has been shown to provide a statistically reasonable picture of when parts of the Internet are active or down.
The team was also able to pinpoint where the outages were occurring, and noted a spike in outages in New Jersey and New York after Sandy made landfall.
Their research was published as a technical report on the ISI webpage on December 17, and the raw data will be made available to other scientists who would like to analyze it.
The data is not yet specific enough to say exactly how many individuals were affected by the outage, but does provide solid information about the scale and location of outages, which could inform Internet service providers on how best to allocate resources to respond to natural disasters.
"Our work measures the virtual world to peer into the physical," said Heidemann. "We are working to improve the coverage of our techniques to provide a nearly real-time view of outages across the entire Internet. We hope that our approach can help first responders quickly understand the scope of evolving natural disasters."
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This research was funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate.
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Posted on: 5:19 pm, December 17, 2012, by Staff Writer, updated on: 05:13pm, December 17, 2012
Washington (CNN) ? As the horrific shootings in Newtown, Connecticut remain fresh in the minds of Americans, a big question is whether the deaths of 20 young children at Sandy Hook Elementary School will impact public opinion on gun control.
A new poll conducted immediately after Friday?s tragedy indicates that the shootings may be changing some minds.
Other recent high profile incidents, such as the shootings in Tucson, Arizona in January 2010 that left six dead and some, including of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, severely injured, the mass shooting this past July at a movie theater in suburban Denver, Colorado that left 12 dead, and shootings two weeks later at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where six people were killed, horrible as they were, barely moved the needle when it came to polling on gun control.
More coverage: Timeline Of Tragic Connecticut?Shooting
During the 1990?s, national polling indicated that a majority of Americans supported stricter gun laws. But public opinion has shifted since then, and the public nowadays appears divided on the issue.
According to the most recent CNN/ORC International survey, which was conducted in early August after the Colorado and Wisconsin shootings, 50% supported no restrictions or just minor restrictions on owning guns, with 48% backing major restrictions on the owning of guns, or making guns illegal for everyone except law enforcement and other authorized personnel. There were similar findings in an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted around the same time, with 50% of registered voters saying they favored stricter gun control laws and 48% opposing such measures.
But the deaths of 20 young children could affect the public conversation over gun control in a way that the past tragedies failed to have an impact.
?The Clinton gun control victories in the 1990s had their distant roots in a school shooting in Stockton California. Public opinion about guns doesn?t get reshaped overnight each time there?s a shooting, but that precedent suggests that an event that victimizes children could have more impact than most in tilting the balance toward support for measures to restrict access to guns,? says CNN Senior Political Analyst and National Journal Editorial Director Ron Brownstein
More coverage: Names, Pictures of Connecticut Shooting Victims?Released
A survey from ABC News/Washington Post released Monday afternoon is the first sign of early evidence that the slayings at Sandy Hook Elementary School will make an impact.
According to the survey, 44% now strongly support stricter gun laws, with 32% opposed. That?s the first time in ABC/Washington Post polling in five years where significantly more people favor rather than opposed stricter gun control measure. And for the first time in surveys dating back to 2000, less than 50% say the best way to reduce gun violence is to enforce existing laws. The number of people saying the best way is to pass new laws edging up to 32%, the highest level since 2000 in ABC/Washington Post polling.
In a significant reversal, a slim majority see the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings as a reflection of broader problems in American society. Only 24% felt the same way after the shootings in Colorado in July, and 31% felt the same way following the Arizona shootings in 2011. Forty-three percent say the Connecticut shootings were isolated acts of a troubled individual, down from the 58% who felt that way after the Arizona incident, and the two-thirds who felt that way after the movie theater killings in Colorado.
The ABC/Washington Post poll also suggests a partisan divide, with half of Democrats favoring new gun laws over merely enforcing current measures. About two-thirds of Republicans questioned continue to advocate strong enforcement of existing laws.
National polling indicates that the trend away from stricter gun laws over the past decade appears to be primarily among groups that are the most resistant to Democrats, and that among those who vote for Democrats, there remains strong backing for gun control.
Brownstein suggests that the half of the country that opposes gun control is the half that that rarely supports Democrats, and that those who do back President Barack Obama and other Democrats back tougher gun control.
?In the same way that the movement away from the party of blue-collar and older-white voters made it easier for President Obama to embrace more liberal positions on gay marriage, legalizing DREAM Act students, and providing contraception in health care reform, the same dynamic could finally overcome his hesitation on gun control. The fact is that Democrats have been paralyzed on this issue for fear of losing voters they have already lost; and after an election in which Obama won only one-third of white men, the constituency most resistant to gun control, and still won a solid victory, the party?s paralysis doesn?t make much sense electorally,? adds Brownstein, in an analysis of Pew Research Center polling on gun control.
The new ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted December 14-16, with 602 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey?s sampling error is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
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More coverage: Newtown Begins Heartbreaking Ritual of Saying?Goodbyes
Source: http://fox2now.com/2012/12/17/in-wake-of-ct-shootings-conversation-turns-to-gun-control/
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Darryl Lindberg is asking voters for a fifth four-year term as Loves Park mayor, and he?ll have a familiar challenger: 2nd Ward Ald. John Pruitt.
That?s one of the many races voters will consider April 9. Three independent candidates filed for aldermanic seats in Rockford and seven candidates emerged for three open seats on the seven-member Rock Valley College Board of Trustees.
Here?s a snapshot of candidates filing petitions Monday for a few local government races. Look for a complete list of candidates in the Register Star and at rrstar.com after the 5 p.m. Dec. 26 deadline to file petitions.
City Council
Paul Frey submitted petitions to run as an independent candidate in the 1st Ward. Elliott Kallstrom also filed to run as an independent in the 2nd Ward, and Peter Herdklotz submitted petitions to run as an independent in the 9th Ward.
Herdklotz is the first person to enter the race in the 9th Ward, where longtime Ald. Bill Timm recently announced that he will not seek re-election.
School Board
Eleven candidates filed Monday to run for a seat on the School Board, including Rockford Township Clerk/former Ald. Jeff Holt, real estate broker Steve Noll and Michael Harner, a financial affairs director at the U of I College of Medicine ? plus five incumbents. All seven seats are up for election.
Subdistrict A: Lisa Jackson (incumbent), Dion Simpson
Subdistrict B: Tim Rollins (incumbent)
Subdistrict C: Ken Scrivano (incumbent)
Subdistrict D: Jude Makulec (incumbent), Stephen Noll
Subdistrict E: Michael Harner
Subdistrict F: Michael Connor, Jeff Holt
Subdistrict G: Jaime Escobedo, Laura Powers (incumbent)
Rock Valley College
(Voters will choose three candidates)
Lynn Kearney of Loves Park
Frank Haney of Machesney Park
Walter P. Chimiak of Loves Park
Christoffer Banks of Rockford
Patrick Murphy of Rockford
Richard W. Mowris of Rockford
Colin Grennan of Byron
Loves Park
Mayor: Darryl Lindberg and John L. Pruitt
City clerk: Bob Burden
City treasurer: John Danielson
City Council
(Voters choose one candidate)
Ward 1: Clint Little
Ward 2: Charles Frykman and David Soll
Ward 3: Robert Schlensker, Ron Adams and Douglas Miller
Ward 4: John Jacobson
Ward 5: A. Marie Holmes
Boone County
Five candidates have filed for five open Belvidere School Board seats: Stacy McGowan, William Baird, Robert Torbert, Dana LaPier and Karla Maville.
Don Ward was the only person who filed to serve on the North Boone School Board.
Two independents have filed for Belvidere City Council alderman: Clint Morris and Verla Olson.
In Cherry Valley, four people have filed for three trustee positions: Scott Kramer, Gary Maitland, David Schroeder and Jeff Fuston. Trustee JoAnn Hudson will challenge village President Jim Claeyssen.
Owen Costanza has filed for Poplar Grove trustee.
Corina Curry: 815-987-1371; ccurry@rrstar.com; @corinacurry
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(CNN) ? Since news first broke about the shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, people began wondering how something so horrible could happen.
Within a few hours, before the magnitude of the tragedy was fully known, reports began to surface that the shooter, Adam Lanza, was autistic or had Asperger?s syndrome in addition to a possible personality or anxiety disorder such as obessive-compulsive disorder.
A relative told investigators that Lanza had a form of autism, according to a law enforcement official, who spoke under condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the investigation. CNN has not been able to confirm independently whether Lanza was diagnosed with autism or Asperger?s syndrome, a higher-functioning form of autism.
However, national autism organizations cautioned against speculation about a link between violence and autism or Asperger?s.
While the motive for this crime is still unknown and may never be fully understood, what is clear, according to experts, is that autism cannot be blamed.
?There is absolutely no evidence or any reliable research that suggests a linkage between autism and planned violence,? the Autism Society said in a statement. ?To imply or suggest that some linkage exists is wrong and is harmful to more than 1.5 million law-abiding, nonviolent and wonderful individuals who live with autism each day.?
Peter Bell of Autism Speaks said, ?Autism did not cause this horror.? Bell, executive vice president for programs and services for the advocacy and research group, is also the father of a son with autism.
Bell said it?s not unusual to want to figure out why someone would commit such a heinous crime, but he also cautioned people to do so responsibly.
And by definition, he said, people with a diagnosis of autism or Asperger?s are not inclined to commit an act of violence. The likelihood of this happening would be no different than the rest of the population, he added.
One in 88 children in the United States have autism, according to the latest estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; one in 54 are boys.
Autism spectrum disorders, including Asperger?s syndrome, are a range of developmental disorders of the brain.
They can cause significant social impairments, communication problems and restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior.
It?s important for the public to know that the gunman?s actions can?t be linked with autism spectrum disorders, said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a pediatric neurologist and autism expert at Rainbow Babies and Children?s Hospital in Cleveland.
?Aggression and violence in the ASD population is reactive, not preplanned and deliberate,? he said.
For example, sometimes children with autism will get violent because they are sick or frustrated and unable to communicate how they feel.
Wiznitzer also said that violence among autism spectrum disorder patients is ?sometimes due to ASD features such as desire for sameness but usually related to a co-existing disorder such as anxiety or ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactive disorder).?
What concerns advocacy groups such as Autism Speaks, the Autism Society and the Autism Research Initiative is that linking autism with violence will once again stigmatize people with autism and turn back the clock on progress made so far.
?Please do not judge any individual with autism based on what is being said about a killer of innocent children and teachers,? the Autism Society said in its statement.
Bell said he is concerned that linking autism to this crime could even endanger innocent people and that the community will begin to fear those with autism.
?We worked so hard to try (integrate them) into our communities, give them opportunities to be employees, to be able to live in our neighborhoods, and if people do jump to conclusions, we really risk taking significant steps backward for people in this population,? he said.
In a statement, Autistic Global Initiative Director Valerie Paradiz said, ?The autism community has long labored toward building understanding, awareness and trust within communities throughout the United States and the world.
?As adults with autism living productive, peaceful lives, we urge the media and professionals who participate in speculative interviews about the motives of the accused shooter to refrain from misleading comments about autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities. ? (M)isinformation could easily trigger increased prejudice and misunderstanding.?
By Miriam Falco ? CNN
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Source: http://fox2now.com/2012/12/17/groups-autism-not-to-blame-for-connecticut-school-shootings/
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