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Police swarmed Rhode Island campus after blind panic
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
April 5, 2013
Panic ensued when a university campus in Rhode Island was placed on lockdown after a professor overheard a student saying that he was ?a good guy? with a gun, unaware that he was most likely referring to an ongoing ?zombie? game.
Police were called in as the professor immediately ordered his students take cover inside a classroom, and later to evacuate the room altogether, following voices he overheard coming from outside, according to reports.
Kayla Gilmore, a URI Student who was in the class told reporters, ?We were in physiology class and heard somebody pounding on the door saying that they have a gun and let them in. ?I have a gun.? So we all dove underneath our seats and then our professor told us, ?everybody run!??
When word got around about the incident via twitter and text messages, students subsequently reported seeing an armed man in a lecture hall, which was also immediately evacuated, with some students suffering minor injuries in the stampede to flee the building.
The sighting is thought to have been part of the panic, rather than any real threat, with police saying that they later recovered a toy ?nerf? gun.
?No evidence was found that an active firearm or active shooter was there,? Captain James Manni of the Rhode Island State Police said. He added that it had become apparent that students at the school were participating in an unofficial ?zombie week,? where ?humans? shoot ?zombies? with nerf guns.
?It was possibly some type of game that was being played,? Manni said, adding that police were investigating if it was connected to the gun scare.
Capt. Frank Castellone, of the Rhode Island State Police said, ?At no time was there ever an active shooter or a handgun on campus. And at no time was there ever anyone in danger.?
Police said they are still attempting to ascertain who ?pounded? on the door and for what purpose, presuming it was a prank.
Following the lockdown, which lasted for two and a half hours, the university canceled all classes at the Kingston campus, with officials saying it was a precautionary measure. Classes resumed Friday as normal.
Some students reacted on Facebook, with one noting:
?This whole ordeal is really annoying, people are now freaking out over a ?threat? which was not carried out. this is proof that gun bans do not work, if the alleged really did have a firearm it sure as hell did not stop the individual from bringing it.?
This is now an all too familiar scene on campuses ?and at schools across the nation in the wake of increased hysteria following the Sandy Hook tragedy in December.
Back in January, a discussion between two children about a toy nerf gun caused a lockdown and a massive armed police response at two elementary schools in the Bronx.
The two schools were locked down for over an hour with pupils kept inside as police with weapons drawn hunted down the deadly non-existent toy gun.
Earlier in January, a Long Island high school was also?placed on lock down for 6 hours in response to a student carrying a toy nerf gun.
We have also seen a long string of incidents where students have been suspended or expelled for bring anything remotely resembling a gun, pointing fingers into the shape of a gun, or even inadvertently biting food into the shape of a gun.
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones? Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
This article was posted: Friday, April 5, 2013 at 11:26 am
Tags: domestic news
Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/university-lockdown-caused-by-zombie-game-nerf-gun.html
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LONDON (AP) ? Japanese stocks outperformed all others for the second day running Thursday after the country's central bank announced a bold new approach to fixing the economy.
Elsewhere, stocks failed to match the performance of the Nikkei amid some nervousness ahead of Friday's U.S. nonfarm payrolls figures for March, which often set the market tone for a week or two after their release.
The euro was volatile after the European Central Bank's president, Mario Draghi, said the bank was looking at doing more to shore up the economy of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro.
However, the main talking point in the markets remained the Bank of Japan's announcement to massively expand the money supply to stoke inflation and get the economy out of its two-decade stagnation.
At the end of a two-day meeting, the Japanese central bank, under new Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, said it would double the money supply through the purchase of government bonds and other measures. Kuroda has vowed to do whatever necessary to get Japan out of its deflationary slump ? falling prices have crippled growth in the world's No. 3 economy for the past two decades.
"Despite speculation earlier in the week over the possibility that not all of the BoJ policy committee were on board with the ultra-accommodative plans of new Governor Kuroda, the latter has still managed to pull a rabbit out of the hat and surprise the markets," said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank International.
The announcement turned around Japan's main Nikkei 225 stock index, which at one stage was trading over 2 percent lower, as well as piling the pressure on the yen, as investors priced in the prospect of more money floating around the Japanese economy.
The Nikkei ended 2.2 percent higher to close at 12,634.54 while the dollar was trading 3.4 percent higher against the Japanese yen, at 96.11 yen.
The developments in Japan did little to support markets elsewhere, however.
In Europe, Germany's DAX fell 0.73 percent to 7,817 while the CAC-40 in France was 0.77 percent lower at 3,726. Trading was little affected by the news that the ECB was keeping its main interest rate unchanged at the record low of 0.75 percent.
What did attract investors' interest, at least for a while in the currency markets, was an ensuing statement from Draghi that the rate-setters were "closely" monitoring economic developments and their impact on inflation.
"Draghi ... appears to be paving the way for resumption of lower interest rates," said Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak & Co.
That view caused the euro to fall sharply in the immediate aftermath of Draghi's remarks to a low of $1.2755. But it soon recovered as investors positioned themselves for Fridays' figures and it was trading 0.71 percent higher on the day at $1.2939.
Elsewhere in Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.74 percent to 6,372 as some traders were disappointed that the Bank of England didn't opt to pump more money into the economy.
Wall Street was relatively solid following a disappointing session on Wednesday, when traders were spooked by some soft U.S. economic figures. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.2 percent at 14,583 as was the S&P 500 index at 1,557.
Weak U.S. weekly jobless claims figures raised the prospect that the monthly jobs figures on Friday may disappoint expectations, but investors appeared to take them in stride, particularly in the U.S.
Earlier, the advance in Tokyo's stock market didn't ripple around Asia. South Korea's Kospi dropped 1.2 percent to 1,959.45 as bellicose rhetoric between North Korea and the U.S. rattled the local market. Early Thursday, North Korea warned that its military has been cleared to attack the U.S. though experts say the North has not demonstrated that it has missiles capable of long range or accuracy. Washington said it was working to defuse the situation.
Hong Kong and mainland Chinese markets were closed for a public holiday.
Oil prices tracked equities lower, with the benchmark New York rate down $1.95 at $92.50 a barrel.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japans-nikkei-outperforms-stimulus-package-144309569--finance.html
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The federal government is scrambling to obtain access to information gleaned from a massive confidential data leak containing the identities of thousands of wealthy offshore account holders around the world, including 450 Canadians.
Banking abroad is as ordinary as a winter home in Florida or a business office in London.
Most of the accounts are for convenience, such as paying utility bills for a condo beneath the palms and getting access to an ATM without paying heavy fees when drawing foreign U.S. currency.
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?Anyone with information on tax cheats has an obligation to bring it forward,? Gail Shea, the Minister of National Revenue, said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Canada Revenue Agency announced it is ?consulting with other jurisdictions around the world to obtain the information referred to in the media.?
The data, contained on a 260 gigabyte hard drive, was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a Washington, D.C. based non-profit group which collaborated with dozens of news organizations including the CBC, The Guardian and the Washington Post to decipher the data files.
The list of account holders reportedly includes more than 130,000 individuals from around the world, including Americans, Germans, Italians as well as people from India, China, Thailand and Indonesia.
So far however, only a small portion of the names have been disclosed, with only one from Canada, class action lawyer Tony Merchant, who reportedly has an account with $1.7-million in the Cook Islands. Mr. Merchant did not return a request for comment from the Financial Post.
Launched in 1997, the ICIJ was created by the Centre for Public integrity, another Washington-based group focusing on corruption and abuse of power. More recently it has reportedly run into funding problems and has had to reduce staff as a result.
With only a handful of names release so far, it is unclear what ICIJ and its partners plan to do with the rest of the previously-confidential personal information it has in its possession, much of which is likely perfectly legal transactions. Calls to the ICIJ were not returned.
For her part, Ms. Shea says the publication of the names ?is good news for hardworking Canadians who pay their fair share.?
?I?ve been told that the CBC will release a few names at a time,? said Dennis Howlett, executive director of Canadians for Tax Fairness. Mr. Howlett, whose organization is focused around tax avoidance issues, said he has been in contact with the ICIJ and received ?early warning? of the strategy though he didn?t have the actual list.
One of the reasons people open up tax haven accounts is to hide assets from their spouses,? he said, adding that even though reports say there are 450 Canadian names, he?s seen about 500 names. The discrepancy has to do with the fact that ?there are databases within databases and links, and some that are not determined where the address is that links to those names. So [investigators] haven?t actually got to the whole bottom of it yet.?
The story went public on Wednesday evening after the ICIJ put out a press release announcing a few tantalizing pieces information from its bid to ?lift the curtain on the offshore system and provide a transparent look into the secret world of tax havens and the individuals and companies that use and benefit from them.?
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Sources said the leaked files were originally sent anonymously to a staffer at the ICIJ several months ago and since then the organization has been working closely with journalists and news organizations around the world to disentangle the information.
The leak reportedly contains evidence that some of the world?s major banks including many European institutions worked closely with offshore banks to generate business. Coming at a time when governments everywhere are struggling with ballooning debt and rising unemployment, the revelations will likely prove damaging for many countries.
Among the names so far identified: A former finance minister of Mongolia; the president of Azerbaijan; the wife of the deputy prime minister of Russia; Denise Rich, the ex-wife of controversial commodities trader Mark Rich; and a daughter of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Many of the accounts were domiciled at banks and trusts in the British Virgin Islands and the Cook Islands, described as lower-tier tax havens compared to jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Still, the geographic limits of the leak are unknown.
With little information on the source of the leak, no doubt thousands of Canadians with overseas funds of every order are worried the contents of the bank accounts could be spilled online in an instant.
While Canadians are required to report income, it is not illegal to open an account at an offshore bank.
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There are cells in your brain that recognize very specific places, and have that as one of their main jobs. These cells, called place cells, are found in an area behind your temple called the hippocampus. While these cells must be sent information from nearby cells to do their job, so far no one has been able to determine exactly what kind of nerve cells, or neurons, work with place cells to craft the code they create for each location. Neurons come in many different types with specialized functions. Some respond to edges and borders, others to specific locations, others act like a compass and react to which way you turn your head.
Now, researchers at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have combined a range of advanced techniques that enable them to identify which neurons communicate with each other at different times in the rat brain, and in doing so, create the animal's sense of location. Their findings are published in the 5 April issue of Science.
"A rat's brain is the size of a grape. Inside there are about fifty million neurons that are connected together at a staggering 450 billion places (roughly)," explains Professor Edvard Moser, director of the Kavli Institute. "Inside this grape-sized brain are areas on each side that are smaller than a grape seed, where we know that memory and the sense of location reside. This is also where we find the neurons that respond to specific places, the place cells. But from which cells do these place cells get information?"
The problem is, of course, that researchers cannot simply cut open the rat brain to see which cells have had contact. That would be the equivalent of taking a giant pile of cooked spaghetti, chopping it into little pieces, and then trying to figure out how the various spaghetti strands were tangled together before the pile was cut up.
A job like this requires the use of a completely different set of neural tools, which is where the "light switches" come into play.
Neurons share many similarities with electric cables when they send signals to each other. They send an electric current in one direction ? from the "body" of the neuron and down a long arm, called the axon, which goes to other nerve cells. Place cells thus get their small electric signals from a whole series of such arms.
So how do light switches play into all of this?
"What we did first was to give these nerve arms a harmless viral infection," Moser says. "We designed a unique virus that does not cause disease, but that acts as a pathway for delivering genes to specific cells. The virus creeps into the neurons, crawls up to the nucleus of the cell, and uses the nerve cell's own factory to make the genetic recipe that we gave to the virus to carry."
The genetic recipe enabled the cell to make the equivalent of a light switch. Our eyes actually contain the same kind of biological light switch, which allows us to see. The virus infection converts neurons that have previously existed only in darkness, deep inside the brain, to now be sensitive to light.
Then the researchers inserted optical fibres in the rat's brain to transmit light to the different unidentified cells that now had light switches in them. They also implanted thin microelectrodes down between the cells so they could detect the signals sent through the axons every time the light from the optical fibre was turned on.
"Now we had everything set up, with light switches installed in cells around the place cells, a lamp, and a way to record the activity," Moser said.
The researchers then turned the lights on and off more than ten thousand times in their rat lab partners, while they monitored and recorded the activity of hundreds of individual cells in the rats' grape-sized brains. The researchers did this research while the rats ran around in a metre-square box, gathering treats. As the rats explored their box and found the treats, the researchers were able to use the light-sensitive cells to figure out which cells were feeding information to the place cells as the rat's brain created the map of where the rat had been.
When the researchers put together all the information afterwards they concluded that there is a whole range of different specialized cells that together provide place cells their information. The brain's GPS ? its sense of place ? is created by signals from head direction cells, border cells, cells that have no known function in creating location points, and grid cells. Place cells thus receive both information about the rat's surroundings and landmarks, but also continuously update their own movement, which is actually independent on sensory input.
"One mystery is the role that the cells that are not part of the sense of direction play. They send signals to place cells, but what do they actually do?" wonders Moser.
"We also wonder how the cells in the hippocampus are able to sort out the various signals they receive. Do they 'listen' to all of the cells equally effectively all the time, or are there some cells that get more time than others to 'talk' to place cells?"
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RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (AP) ? One of two hikers missing for three days in Southern California's Cleveland National Forest was found alive Wednesday night, but his companion remained missing, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Another hiker not involved in the search found 19-year-old Nicholas Cendoya at about 8 p.m., then told a rescue crew where to find him, Orange County sheriff's Lt. Jason Park said.
The crew found Cendoya conscious and was talking to him, but there was no further word on his condition.
The whereabouts and condition of the second hiker, Kyndall Jack, 18, remained unknown, Park said. It wasn't immediately clear if he was able to provide information about Jack.
Cendoya was flown to a hospital 20 miles away in Mission Viejo. Television footage showed him walking with help from paramedics.
The pair had not been heard from since their cellphone died Sunday night.
Several dozen searchers with help from three helicopters had been combing the rugged hills of Trabuco Canyon in the national forest.
They were searching the area because a 911 call from the hikers' cellphone was traced to a nearby cell tower, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. John Muir.
Muir said earlier that Cendoya and Jack's "probability for survival is good" with mild weather both day and night.
The two were believed to have gone off trail near Holy Jim Trail, a tree-lined dirt path along a creek that leads to a waterfall and is popular with day hikers.
In the 911 call, they said they were about a mile from Jack's car, which was parked at a trailhead, but rescuers expanded the search when they weren't found nearby.
Jack's mother drew a message on the car's dusty windshield that read: "Kyndall - we r looking wont stop love you mom," and signed it with a heart.
"When you're disoriented because you're out of breath and tired and you think you're one mile away, you could be potentially three or four miles away," Muir said Wednesday afternoon. "There's a lot of ground to cover."
It was unclear whether the lost hikers carried water and Jack's father, Russ Jack, said he worried that after three days the pair might be dehydrated.
The area is in a section of the national forest in the Santa Ana Mountains, which lie along the border of Orange and Riverside counties southeast of Los Angeles. The trail ranges in elevation from about 2,000 feet to about 4,000 feet.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/1-hiker-found-1-still-missing-calif-forest-044304398.html
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Anyone who played sports as a child might want to consider passing along to kids in underresourced communities the same opportunity to learn teamwork, get fit and have fun in a safe environment.
Tulane students Alex Schoolfield (far left) and Katie McCluskey (far right) pause from kicking around the ball with McDonogh No. 32 Elementary School students (second from left to right) Lydell Hunter, Haley Allen and Cameron Russell. Schoolfield and McCluskey participated in after-school soccer training at the West Bank school in preparation for the upcoming YLC Kicks/NORD Soccer Saturdays.
?You don?t have to commit to every Saturday,? says Tricia Travis. ?You can come as much or as little as you can.?
Travis, a 2011 Tulane University graduate, is a Coach Across America youth soccer coordinator for YLC Kicks, a nonprofit, sports-based youth development organization. YLC Kicks is a partner with the Tulane Center for Public Service.
During Soccer Saturdays, coaches will teach basic skills to children who may never have seen a soccer ball before, says Travis.
Katie McCluskey, a sophomore public health major, is an intern for YLC Kicks and future president of the Urban Soccer Club, a club that is forming at Tulane to spread the love of the ?beautiful game? and bring soccer enthusiasts together.
?I believe that soccer can make a huge impact on the lives of children,? says McCluskey. ?Not only is the sport fun and exciting, it is a great way to build important life skills like loyalty and teamwork.?
Members of the Tulane community interested in participating in Soccer Saturdays or the Urban Soccer Club should contact McCluskey.
Source: http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/040413_soccersaturdays.cfm
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