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Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Amanda Berry 911 call: What did she say?

Amanda Berry: The transcript of the 911 call made to police after Amanda Berry escaped from her captors Monday. Amanda Berry had been missing since 2003, when she was 16.

By Associated Press / May 7, 2013

The voice of the long-missing woman was frantic and breathless, choking back tears. "Help me. I'm Amanda Berry," she told a 911 dispatcher. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now." Those words led police to a house near downtown Cleveland where Berry and two other women who went missing a decade ago were found on Monday.

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A transcript of the 911 call placed Monday by a woman missing since 2003, when she was 16.

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(unintelligible)

Caller: Help me. I'm Amanda Berry.

Dispatcher: You need police, fire, ambulance?

Caller: I need police.

Dispatcher: OK, and what's going on there?

Caller: I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years, and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now.

Dispatcher: OK, and what's your address?

Caller: 2207 Seymour Avenue.

Dispatcher: 2207 Seymour. Looks like you're calling me from 2210.

Caller: Huh?

Dispatcher: Looks like you're calling me from 2210.

Caller: I can't hear you.

Dispatcher: Looks like you're calling me from 2210 Seymour.

Caller: I'm across the street; I'm using the phone.

Dispatcher: OK, stay there with those neighbors. Talk to police when they get there.

Caller: (Crying)

Dispatcher: OK, talk to police when they get there.

Caller: OK. Hello?

Dispatcher: OK, talk to the police when they get there.

Caller: OK (unintelligible).

Dispatcher: We're going to send them as soon as we get a car open.

Caller: No, I need them now before he gets back.

Dispatcher: All right; we're sending them, OK?

Caller: OK, I mean, like ...

Dispatcher: Who's the guy you're trying -- who's the guy who went out?

Caller: Um, his name is Ariel Castro.

Dispatcher: OK. How old is he?

Caller: He's like 52.

Dispatcher: And, uh -

Caller: I'm Amanda Berry. I've been on the news for the last 10 years.

Dispatcher: I got, I got that, dear. (Unintelligible) And, you say, what was his name again?

Caller: Uh, Ariel Castro.

Dispatcher: And is he white, black or Hispanic?

Caller: Uh, Hispanic.

Dispatcher: What's he wearing?

Caller (agitated): I don't know, 'cause he's not here right now. That's why I ran away.

Dispatcher: When he left, what was he wearing?

Caller: Who knows (unintelligible).

Dispatcher: The police are on their way; talk to them when they get there.

Caller: Huh? I - OK.

Dispatcher: I told you they're on their way; talk to them when they get there, OK.

Caller: All right, OK. Bye.

___

Source: Cleveland law department

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Sunday, 5 May 2013

'Iron Man,' 'Star Trek' Movies Used as Scam Bait

Geeks and sci-fi fans beware! Scammers are using the current hype surrounding the movies "Iron Man 3" and "Star Trek Into Darkness" to trick people into downloading dangerous software.

Security blog TrendLabs is reporting they've found more than a hundred websites that claim to let people stream or download bootleg copies of "Iron Man 3," which comes out in theaters today (May 3).

These sites will prompt users to download and install a video player, which should be a major red flag; downloading, torrenting or streaming a movie file, even illegally, does not require a separate video player.

The video players on these purported "Iron Man 3" sites by and large worked, but they could easily be replaced with malware in the future. And no, by and large they won't actually let you watch the movie.

Especially alarming is the fact that most of these sites use very well-known and trusted free blog providers, which might make more trusting Internet users think they're legit. TrendLabs also found that half of the scam websites were hosted on Tumblr, a blogging platform well-known for its active fan communities.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" isn't even out yet, but the much-anticipated movie is also being used as everything from irritating linkbait to vulnerable and useless downloads.

[See also: Suckers! A Decade of Successful Internet Scams]

Security blog ThreatTrack has cataloged multiple examples of these scams, including Tweets with enticing claims such as "Alice Eve Seduces Chris Pine in Brand New Star Trek Into Darkness Clip," and then, just for good measure, the #justinbieber hashtag thrown in as well.

Irresistible, right? Well, the accompanying link merely brings you to a page bearing ads for the movie's tie-in online multiplayer game.

?But that's fairly benign compared to another wave of scams found on YouTube that snag unsavvy users by claiming you can "watch this movie now." These videos are nothing but advertisements for subscription-based streaming services ? and to add insult to irritation, these services don't even offer the advertised movie.

Still other sites will use the promise of "Star Trek Into Darkness" to trick you into taking surveys that generate cash for the posters, or worse, to download unsafe video players or other software that, like in the above-mentioned "Iron Man 3" scams, will leave your computer vulnerable to malware.

Fortunately, these threats are easy to avoid ? don't go looking for illegal online versions of "Iron Man 3" or "Star Trek Into Darkness." You can keep your computer safe, and support your favorite Hollywood-provided geekery, by just paying to see the films in theaters.

You can read the full report on the "Iron Man 3" threats by TrendLabs here, and the "Star Trek Into Darkness" threats by ThreatTrack Security here.

This story was provided by TechNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. Email?jscharr@technewsdaily.com or follow her @JillScharr. Follow us @TechNewsDaily, on Facebook or on?Google+.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iron-man-star-trek-movies-used-scam-bait-220942186.html

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Internet 'fame' is painful for family of man with Down syndrome

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Helen A.S. Popkin NBCNews.com

7 hours ago

Image courtesy Holland family.

Late last week Nashville resident Adam Holland arrived home with exciting news for his parents. His picture was in the local newspaper. The photo, taken nearly 10 years before during an art class for disabled students, showed Adam, then 17, proudly holding up his drawing and smiling.

Pamela and Bernard Holland, however, knew about the photo, and now had the difficult task of explaining it as best they could to Adam, who has Down syndrome. His photo was famous on the Internet, they told him. Made viral by Tampa radio station WHTP-FM, which used it to call out the ?Retarded News? page on its website, Adam's altered photo now circulates on the Internet, repeatedly superimposed with defamatory and obscene messages.

His parents ? who first learned of Adam?s unwelcome Internet fame in December ? had filed an $18 million lawsuit against the alleged perpetrators, and that?s what the news story was about.

When he understood that his newfound "fame" amounted to being made fun of by total strangers, Adam bowed his head, the Holland's lawyer, Larry Crain, told TODAY. Later, Adam?s parents found their son in the bathroom ? the situation had made him physically sick. Adam isn?t the first to suffer the ugly side of sudden Internet fame, but his family is one of the few who have gone to the courts to fight back.

Three parties are cited in the family's lawsuit, filed in federal court. Along with Cox Media Group, which owns WHTP-FM, the lawsuit cites the owner of Sign Generator, a user-generated meme website which offered up Adam?s photo in its ?Retarded Handicap Generator? section. The third is a Flickr user in Minnesota, who received more than 31,000 views on a version of the photo that was altered to include a sexual reference. (The image has since been taken down.) For posting, ?unauthorized, deceptive, false, misleading and defamatory images? which caused ?severe mental anguish and emotional distress,? the family is seeking compensatory and punitive damages totaling $18 million.

When a friend first emailed the couple a link to their son?s photo on the Tampa website last December, the Hollands were reluctant to take action. ?They were worried it would just shine a spotlight on their son,? Crain, their lawyer, said. ?But they came to realize there may have been similar victims out there, and if they don?t do something, it?s just going to continue.?

Just ask the parents of Heidi Cowter, 16, who lives in the UK and also has Down syndrome. Last year, her parents described a lengthy ordeal with Facebook after they discovered Heidi had become a popular meme called ?I Can Count To Potato.?

?It?s almost like Faceless rather than Facebook. We have been repeatedly trying to take these distressing sites down and I have not once had a direct response,? her mother, Liz Cowter told the UK Sun. Facebook eventually removed the photos.

Becoming the unwilling subject of an Internet meme can do a lot of damage, as the story of Ghyslain Raza, aka ?Star Wars Kid,? reveals. In 2002, the chubby Quebec teenager videotaped himself swinging a golf-ball retriever like he was Darth Maul with a double-bladed lightsaber. He didn't put the awkward rendition on the Internet, though. Some kids found the video tape in an Ontario high school basement later on, and uploaded it to the Internet.

A $250,000 lawsuit, filed against the parents of the video's uploaders, stated that Raza suffered from "harassment and derision from his high-school mates and the public at large." Raza reportedly finished school in a mental health facility. The suit was later settled out of court, and Raza appears to have recovered. Two years ago, an interview with Motherboard demonstrated Raza to be a well-adjusted student in his 20s, and the president of a cultural preservation society.

Possibly the most nightmarish Internet meme experience befell the Catsouras family in 2006. California Highway Patrol took photos of daughter Nikki after she was killed in a car crash. The images leaked onto the Internet and quickly went viral. A fake tribute page on MySpace included several grisly photos, and anonymous trolls began emailing the photos to the family. A six-year court battle led to a $2.37 million settlement from the California Highway Patrol. But the family was forced to accept that the images would never be completely purged from the massively decentralized Internet.

Even then, lawsuits don't always end up favoring the victims. In 2010, UK courts tossed out a lawsuit filed against a magazine which scraped a provocative image of a 15-year-old girl from her Bebo site, creating the ?Epic Boobs Girl? meme.

As Adam Holland?s case continues to draw similar attention from the media and the Internet, Crain says Adam?s parents are surprised by all the support they?re receiving from strangers. ?I think it?s struck a chord,? Crain says. ?Adam is an innocent victim. He wouldn?t know how to post his image on the Internet, as so many people do so with Facebook and social media. Yet we?ve got an individual whose likeness has been viciously maligned.?

Adam isn't first to find unwanted fame as an Internet fame, and regardless of the lawsuit's success, he certainly won't be the last.

Helen A.S. Popkin is Deputy Technology & Science editor for NBCNews.com/TODAY Tech. Follow her on Twitterand Facebook.

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You Better Redneckinize?June Shannon & Sugar Bear Getting Hitched!

You Better Redneckinize…June Shannon & Sugar Bear Getting Hitched!

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Botox finds new wrinkle in brain communication

Friday, May 3, 2013

National Institutes of Health researchers used the popular anti-wrinkle agent Botox to discover a new and important role for a group of molecules that nerve cells use to quickly send messages. This novel role for the molecules, called SNARES, may be a missing piece that scientists have been searching for to fully understand how brain cells communicate under normal and disease conditions.

"The results were very surprising," said Ling-Gang Wu, Ph.D., a scientist at NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. "Like many scientists we thought SNAREs were only involved in fusion."

Every day almost 100 billion nerve cells throughout the body send thousands of messages through nearly 100 trillion communication points called synapses. Cell-to-cell communication at synapses controls thoughts, movements, and senses and could provide therapeutic targets for a number of neurological disorders, including epilepsy.

Nerve cells use chemicals, called neurotransmitters, to rapidly send messages at synapses. Like pellets inside shotgun shells, neurotransmitters are stored inside spherical membranes, called synaptic vesicles. Messages are sent when a carrier shell fuses with the nerve cell's own shell, called the plasma membrane, and releases the neurotransmitter "pellets" into the synapse.

SNAREs (soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor) are three proteins known to be critical for fusion between carrier shells and nerve cell membranes during neurotransmitter release.

"Without SNAREs there is no synaptic transmission," said Dr. Wu.

Botulinum toxin, or Botox, disrupts SNAREs. In a study published in Cell Reports, Dr. Wu and his colleagues describe how they used Botox and similar toxins as tools to show that SNAREs may also be involved in retrieving message carrier shells from nerve cell membranes immediately after release.

To study this, the researchers used advanced electrical recording techniques to directly monitor in real time carrier shells being fused with and retrieved from nerve cell membranes while the cells sent messages at synapses. The experiments were performed on a unique synapse involved with hearing called the calyx of Held. As expected, treating the synapses with toxins reduced fusion. However Dr. Wu and his colleagues also noticed that the toxins reduced retrieval.

For at least a decade scientists have known that carrier shells have to be retrieved before more messages can be sent. Retrieval occurs in two modes: fast and slow. A different group of molecules are known to control the slow mode.

"Until now most scientists thought fusion and retrieval were two separate processes controlled by different sets of molecules", said Dr. Wu.

Nevertheless several studies suggested that one of the SNARE molecules could be involved with both modes.

In this study, Dr. Wu and his colleagues systematically tested this idea to fully understand retrieval. The results showed that all three SNARE proteins may be involved in both fast and slow retrieval.

"Our results suggest that SNAREs link fusion and retrieval," said Dr. Wu.

The results may have broad implications. SNAREs are commonly used by other cells throughout the body to release chemicals. For example, SNAREs help control the release of insulin from pancreas cells, making them a potential target for diabetes treatments. Recent studies suggest that SNAREs may be involved in neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and spastic ataxia.

"We think SNARES work like this in most nerve cell synapses. This new role could change the way scientists think about how SNAREs are involved in neuronal communication and diseases," said Dr. Wu.

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Xu J et al. "SNARE proteins synaptobrevin, SNAP-25 and syntaxin are involved in rapid and slow endocytosis at synapses." Cell Reports, May 2, 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.cellrep.2013.03.010

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: http://www.ninds.nih.gov

Thanks to NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for this article.

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Obama says he won't comment on Israeli airstrike

President Barack Obama listens a question as he participates in an economic forum in San Jose, Costa Rica, Saturday, May 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) ? President Barack Obama says he won't comment on an Israeli airstrike against Syria that targeted a shipment of advanced missiles believed to be headed for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Israeli officials on Saturday confirmed the strike, which took place early Friday.

Obama told the Spanish-language network Telemundo in an interview that he will defer to the Israeli government for comment. He also repeated his view that the Israelis justifiably have to guard against the transfer of advanced weapons to organizations like Hezbollah. The U.S. considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

Obama conducted the interview Saturday, and a portion of the president's answer to a question about the airstrike was broadcast on MSNBC.

Associated Press

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Bomb outside Sunni mosque kills six in Iraqi capital

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed a Sunni cleric and five worshippers when they left a mosque in Bagdhad after Friday prayers, police and medics said, as regional sectarian violence threatens to return Iraq to all-out conflict. Iraq has become increasingly volatile as the civil war in neighboring Syria strains volatile relations between Sunnis and Shi'ites. April saw the most killings since 2008, but was below the height of sectarian bloodletting in 2006-07.

Government support dips as Spaniards tire of crisis, corruption

MADRID (Reuters) - Public support for Spain's ruling center-right party has slipped following a high-level corruption scandal and ongoing recession, and Spaniards remain pessimistic about the political and economic outlook, a poll showed on Friday. Half of Spaniards consider the political situation to be "very bad" and ranked corruption as Spain's number two problem behind unemployment, according to a survey by the state-owned Sociological Investigations Centre (CIS), carried out in April.

U.S. military plane crashes in southern Kyrgyzstan

BISHKEK (Reuters) - A U.S. military refueling plane on its way to Afghanistan exploded in mid air and crashed in Kyrgyzstan on Friday when its cargo of fuel ignited, the Central Asian country's Emergencies Ministry said. The aircraft took off from the U.S. military transit center at Kyrgyzstan's international Manas airport, which U.S. forces maintain for operations in Afghanistan, with around 70 metric tons of fuel on board, a local ministry official said.

U.S. names veteran diplomat Dobbins as new envoy to Afghanistan/Pakistan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has appointed veteran U.S. diplomat James Dobbins as Washington's new special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said on Friday. Dobbins, head of international security and defense at the RAND National Defense Research Institute and a former senior U.S. diplomat, will replace Marc Grossman as special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Gunmen in standoff with Libyan army at Tripoli protest

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The Libyan army was deployed to Tripoli's main square on Friday to guard a pro-government rally and became involved in an uneasy standoff with anti-government gunmen. The pro-government protesters were rallying against groups of gunmen who have taken control of two ministries in the capital.

Venezuela's Maduro says Colombia's Uribe plotting to kill him

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday said Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe was plotting to kill him, adding to a deluge of accusations by the former bus driver in recent months. "Uribe is behind a plot to kill me," Maduro said in a televised speech. "Uribe is a killer. I have enough evidence of who is conspiring, and there are sectors of the Venezuelan right that are involved."

Egyptian billionaire Sawiris returns home to warm welcome

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris returned home on Friday, ending a self-imposed exile that began after the election of President Mohamed Mursi last year, and was warmly welcomed by a government grappling with an economic crisis. Sawiris, one of Egypt's most prominent Coptic Christians and a critic of Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood, was greeted at Cairo airport by an envoy of the Islamist president who presented him with flowers.

Somalia's security forces hamstrung by corruption, infiltrators

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's security forces need rebuilding to cement gains made by foreign troops against Islamist militants, but how to pay and arm recruits, tackle corruption and prevent rebels infiltrating their ranks remain hurdles for the cash-strapped government. Proving the dire state of the Somali forces, when Islamist gunmen attacked a court in Mogadishu in April, police said they couldn't tell who was friend or foe, while members of the force say a $100-a-month salary is not enough to inspire loyalty.

Cuba says will consider U.N. and Red Cross visits

GENEVA (Reuters) - Cuba said on Friday it would consider letting in U.N. human rights investigators to examine allegations of torture and repression and allowing Red Cross officials access its prisons after a gap of nearly 25 years. Dissidents say security forces round up opponents of the Communist country for short-term detention and some are mistreated. Cuban officials deny allegations of arbitrary detention or torture.

Anti-EU party shakes British PM's Conservatives in local vote

LONDON (Reuters) - The anti-European Union UK Independence Party made sweeping gains in local elections, siphoning support from British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives in a vote that exposed a threat to his re-election chances in 2015. UKIP, in results released on Friday, secured almost one in every four votes cast on Thursday in council elections in mostly English rural areas that have traditionally been Conservative strongholds, rattling all Britain's three main parties as voters switched to the populist group.

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