Actors with fake guns bring police with real ones

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? College filmmakers were using fake guns to shoot a robbery scene at a suburban Los Angeles coffee shop when the movie took a scary twist that wasn't in the script.

Eight police officers were descending on the masked actors. The police were real, with very real guns drawn, and had no idea this was a movie.

"Drop the gun! Drop it! Drop it!" one officer yells on an audio recording police were carrying.

One of the actors immediately let go of his fake assault rifle. But another held onto his replica handgun, forcing officers to make a life-or-death choice. An officer knocked the gun from the actor's hand and handcuffed him, drawing a peaceful climax to what could have been something far worse.

"One of the officers made the decision that had the man moved, he would have been killed," said Glendora police Capt. Tim Staab. "It was just milliseconds from a tragedy."

Police said it showed the dangers of movie-making for amateur film crews who don't get permits and follow proper steps before taking to the streets.

"I can't think of a situation more dangerous than having a gun in your hand with cops responding," Staab said. "It was much closer than we ever want to get close to."

Attempts to reach the film's director were unsuccessful. The students declined to tell police what college they were from.

The officers responded to the shop after receiving a 911 call from a woman who reported seeing an armed, masked gunman inside Classic Coffee in Glendora, a suburb east of Los Angeles that rarely sees Hollywood film crews.

Police said there was nothing to indicate a short movie was being shot. No one was outside to warn customers, there were no signs, and no permit had been pulled.

When officers arrived, there was no question in their mind that a robbery was occurring, Staab said.

It's rare "to go into a coffee shop and see someone carrying an AR-15 rifle and wearing a mask," he said.

Under normal filming protocols, weapons carried by the actors have orange markings to indicate they are replicas. But the markings on the guns used by the students had been covered by a black pen, presumably to make the weapons look more realistic.

Staab said one of the masked men, apparently startled by the real-life response, held the fake gun by his side, pointed toward the ground. When he didn't drop it, Staab said, an officer did something unusual ? he stripped it from the man's hand and sent the gun falling to the floor.

After the man was handcuffed, the officer is heard on the audiotape asking what was going on. Somebody says a film was being made.

"You are shooting a short film?" the officer asks. "In a store with a man with a gun?"

The students were allowed to keep the fake weapons and weren't facing any charges. They were given a lecture by officers about the dangers they created and went on their way.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/actors-fake-guns-bring-police-real-ones-084324299.html

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Microsoft HPC becomes Big Compute

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Microsoft?s Big Compute team ? formerly the Windows HPC team ? is to become part of the company?s new Enterprise and Cloud Engineering group.

Working closely with Microsoft and external academic and lab partners, the Big Compute team will continue to develop the HPC Pack for Windows Server clusters and extend the applications to Windows Azure.

Big Compute aims to enable customers to run the applications via the cloud, even if they do not have access to the necessary cluster infrastructures.

In addition, enterprises customers will be able to run on-premises servers with optimal loads in Azure, while developers can cost-effectively test applications and models at scale.

As part of the Windows Azure Group, Big Compute will drive low-latency remote direct memory access capabilities and ensure customers can provision thousands of cores to run their computing jobs.

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India to probe claims multinationals break baby milk law

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New Delhi: The government said it would investigate allegations by charities that multinational corporations Nestle, Heinz and Abbott were breaking the law by promoting milk formula and infant cereals and undermining efforts to boost breastfeeding in the country.

Two charities - the Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI) and International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) - say the three companies are using Indian websites to advertise and promote their baby milk and food products, which is illegal under the Infant Milk Substitutes Act, the IMS Act.

A senior government official said authorities were concerned about the allegations, which were made at the start of World Breastfeeding Week, and would investigate. "BPNI is an authorised agency to monitor the violation of the IMS Act," Dr Shreeranjan, joint secretary of the ministry of women and child development, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "If what they are saying is on merit, we will definitely support them and seek to take action."

The World Health Organization (WHO) - which recommends exclusive breastfeeding for babies up to six months old - says formula is not as healthy as breast milk and that there are risks of illnesses such as diarrhoea from using unsafe water.

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Kazakh dissident banker held in southern France

PARIS (AP) ? French special police forces backed by aircraft and armored vehicles seized a Kazakh dissident businessman accused of embezzling billions of dollars from his country's BTA Bank, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive former Kazakh energy minister and head of the pre-nationalized BTA Bank, was transferred to a temporary holding facility after appearing before judicial authorities in southeast France. His arrest a day earlier in the muscular police operation came after the deportation of his wife and 6-year-old daughter from Italy to Kazakhstan caused a political crisis in Rome last month.

After leaving his government post, Ablyazov emerged as a prominent opponent of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled the energy-rich Central Asian nation since 1990, before the Soviet collapse.

Ablyazov, 50, is wanted under an Interpol red notice ? the equivalent of an international arrest warrant ? on allegations of "fraud in a large scale infliction of damage on property by deceit or breach of trust, money laundering, abuse of authority, document forgery," the international police body's website says.

He had dropped out of sight just before he was sentenced in Britain in February last year for contempt of court during a financial fraud trial.

Solange Legras, chief state prosecutor for international cases at an appeals court in the southeastern town of Aix-en-Provence, held a hearing with Ablyazov on Thursday. She told The Associated Press that special police forces, backed by an airplane and armored vehicles, swept into a rental home in the town of Mouans Sartoux on Wednesday to detain him.

The police used "powerful means" because Ablyazov was known to have a "private militia" at his disposal, said Legras. No shots were fired or any physical damage caused in the operation. She said Ablyazov has been sought through Interpol since 2009, and was likely to remain in French custody for weeks ? at the very least.

Picked up "in shorts and a T-shirt, "Ablyazov had in his possession a diplomatic passport from Central African Republic that was "probably false," Legras said. Police were only authorized to detain him, not search the site.

Ablyazov's lawyer countered that the diplomatic passport was valid and said his client clearly had no militia at his disposal. The lawyer, Bruno Rebstock, said Kazakhstan's authoritarian government was behind the international effort to track him down.

"It's becoming a real political and personal vengeance against the family and against their supporters," Rebstock said. "If he weren't a significant member of the opposition we wouldn't be pursued so diligently."

During their hearing, which lasted no more than a half-hour and took place with three lawyers present, Ablyazov insisted he had political refugee status in Britain and said he was the victim of a smear campaign, Legras said. She said her role was to explain the possible extradition process, not delve into the case. Afterward, Ablyazov was taken to a detention center in the neighboring town of Luynes.

Rebstock said he would appeal the detention: Ablyazov is "combative, forthcoming and prepared to defend himself against the charges."

Shortly after setting up a pro-reform party in 2001, Ablyazov was sentenced to six years in prison for abuse of public office. He was pardoned by Nazarbayev and released two years later, vowing to stay out of politics ? a promise he broke by funneling money to the opposition.

Kazakh prosecutors have described Ablyazov as the head of an extremist, criminal conspiracy bent on "seizing power by inciting civil strife and hatred." The prosecutor in Astana, the Kazakh capital, said Interpol had informed the government of the arrest, which was carried out at the request of Ukraine.

Ablyazov is wanted by Kazakhstan authorities on charges of siphoning off at least $5 billion from Kazakhstan's BTA Bank. In Russia, he's being sought in connection with embezzlement charges involving BTA and a Russian company. Ukraine is seeking Ablyazov on charges linked to alleged embezzlement of funds from a local BTA branch.

A British court last year upheld a 22-month prison sentence imposed on Ablyazov for contempt of court for breaching an asset-freezing order. And last month Italy's shaky coalition government came under fire but survived a no-confidence vote over its handling of the deportation of his wife and daughter from their Rome home to Kazakhstan in May ? amid pressure from Kazakh diplomats.

In a statement on their father's website, Ablyazov's son and older daughter said they feared what would happen if their father were deported to Kazakhstan.

"We beg the French authorities not to grant Kazakhstan our father. He is a man of honor who has been fighting all his life and sacrificed so much for freedom and democracy in Kazakhstan," wrote Madina and Madiyar Ablyazov. "We are afraid for his life."

Efforts to contact them were not immediately successful.

Legras, the prosecutor, said French judicial authorities only know of extradition requests from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. For now, Legras said she was focusing on the extradition request from Ukraine because France has no bilateral extradition accord with Kazakhstan.

Rebstock said the Kazakh government was clearly behind Ukraine's request.

Under the extradition process, the requesting country has 40 days to send its legal dossier to French authorities. Once that is received, French prosecutors will have five days to present Ablyazov to investigating magistrates. As a result, Legras said she expected that Ablyazov would remain in French custody at least through the end of August.

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Vladimir Isachenkov contributed to this report from Moscow.

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Groups in federal court to block horse slaughter

FILE - This April 15, 2013 file photo shows Valley Meat Co., which has been sitting idle for more than a year, waiting for the Department of Agriculture to approve its plans to slaughter horses. A federal judge in Albuquerque is expected to decide Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 whether companies in New Mexico and Iowa can begin legally slaughtering horses, for the first time in the country since it was effectively banned in 2006. (AP Photo/Jeri Clausing, File)

FILE - This April 15, 2013 file photo shows Valley Meat Co., which has been sitting idle for more than a year, waiting for the Department of Agriculture to approve its plans to slaughter horses. A federal judge in Albuquerque is expected to decide Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 whether companies in New Mexico and Iowa can begin legally slaughtering horses, for the first time in the country since it was effectively banned in 2006. (AP Photo/Jeri Clausing, File)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ? Federal officials failed to consider environmental hazards when they gave two companies permission to resume domestic horse slaughter, attorneys for animal rights groups seeking to halt the opening of the slaughterhouses argued Friday.

The Department of Agriculture issued the permits in June, and the plants in New Mexico and Iowa plan to open Monday.

But animal welfare groups are seeking a restraining order from U.S. District Judge Christina Armijo, saying the slaughterhouses should be forced to undergo public review under provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act.

No environmental impact study has ever been done to examine the effects of horse slaughter, Bruce Wagman, a lawyer for The Humane Society of the United States, the Colorado-based Front Range Equine Rescue and other plaintiffs argued in court on Friday. Horses are given more than 100 drugs not approved for other feed animals, he said.

"The government is about to embark on a brand-new multi-state program," he said. "We just don't know about the dangers that lie ahead."

But attorneys representing the USDA and the meat companies said the groups presented no evidence to back their assertions that those drugs would pose environmental dangers through waste runoff or other means, arguing the plaintiffs were simply in court because they are morally opposed to horse slaughter and are looking for a way to delay the plants while the lobby Congress for a ban on horse slaughter.

"There is speculation. There is innuendo. But there is no evidence," said assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew A. Smith.

Congress effectively banned horse slaughter in 2006. But the ban was lifted in 2011, renewing an emotional and divisive national debate over whether horses are livestock or domestic companions, and how best to deal with untold thousands of unwanted, abandoned and often starving horses.

Valley Meat Co. of Roswell, N.M., has been at the forefront of the fight, pushing for more than a year for permission to convert its cattle plant into a horse slaughterhouse. The meat would be exported for human consumption and for use as zoo and other animal food.

After more than a year of delays and a lawsuit by Valley Meat, the Department of Agriculture gave the company the go-ahead in June. USDA officials said they were legally obligated to issue the permits, even though the Obama administration opposes horse slaughter and is seeking to reinstate the congressional ban.

Another permit was approved a few days later for and Responsible Transportation of Sigourney, Iowa.

Pat Rogers, an attorney for Responsible Transportation, said the company was started by three young college graduates looking for a way to help fill a need. Currently, he said, old and unwanted horses have to be shipped thousands of miles in sometimes inhumane conditions to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico.

"The truth is, you honor, there is no old horses home," Rogers told the judge. "There is no Medicare for horses."

And if the company is barred from opening, he said, the young entrepreneurs will be on the hook for $1.5 million.

Blair Dunn, who represents Valley Meat Co., argued horse slaughter is far from new.

"This has been going on for 100 years," he said. "... There has never been a finding of environmental harm."

Horse rescue and animal welfare groups, ranchers, politicians and Indian tribes are divided over what is the most humane way to deal with the country's horse overpopulation.

Some Native American tribes, including the Navajo and Yakama nations, are among those pushing to let the two companies open their slaughterhouses. They say the exploding horse populations on their reservations are trampling and overgrazing rangelands, decimating forage resources for cattle and big game and causing widespread environmental damage.

"The only actual evidence of environmental impact is ours," said Yakama Nation attorney John Boyd, who filed a statement from the tribe's biologist about the damage from more than 12,000 wild horses on the reservation. "And it's a catastrophe that can be largely or significantly ameliorated" by making it easier for the tribe to round up the animals to slaughter.

While some tribes are opposed to horse slaughter, citing the animals' sacred place in their culture, the Navajo Nation has expressed support for the plants. The Navajo Nation is the country's largest American Indian reservation. A tribal spokesman estimates there are as many as 75,000 horses on its land, including many horses that the officials say are dehydrated and starving after years of drought.

On the other side, actor Robert Redford, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, current New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and New Mexico Attorney General Gary King are among those who strongly oppose a return to domestic horse slaughter, citing the horse's iconic role as a companion animal in the West.

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What Is the Icelandic Word for ?Four??

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The following is an excerpt from Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math, by Daniel Tammet, out now from Little, Brown.

Ask an Icelander what comes after three and he will answer, ?Three what?? Ignore the warm blood of annoyance as it fills your cheeks, and suggest something, or better still, point. ?Ah,? our Icelander replies. Ruffled by the wind, the four sheep stare blankly at your index finger. ?Fj?rar,? he says at last.

However, when you take your phrase book?presumably one of those handy, rain-resistant brands?from your pocket and turn to the numbers page, you find, marked beside the numeral four, fj?rir. This is not a printing error, nor did you hear the Icelander wrong. Both words are correct; both words mean ?four.? This should give you your first inkling of the sophistication with which these people count.

Icelanders have highly refined discrimination for the smallest quantities. ?Four? sheep differ in kind from ?four,? the abstract counting word. No farmer in Hverager?i would ever dream of counting sheep in the abstract. Nor, for that matter, would his wife or son or priest or neighbor. To list both words together, as in a textbook, would make no sense to them whatsoever.

This numerical diversity applies not only to sheep. Naturally enough, the woolly mammals feature little in town dwellers? talk. Like you and me, my friends in Reykjav?k talk about birthdays and buses and pairs of jeans but, unlike in English, in Icelandic these things each require their own set of number words.

For example, a toddler who turns 2 is tveggja years old. And yet the pocket phrase book will inform you that ?two? is tveir. Age, abstract as counting to our way of thinking, becomes in Icelandic a tangible phenomenon. Perhaps you too sense the difference: The word tveggja slows the voice, suggesting duration. We hear this possibly even more clearly in the word for a 4-year-old: fj?gurra. Interestingly, these sounds apply almost exclusively to the passage of years? the same words are hardly ever used to talk about months, days, or weeks. Clock time, on the other hand, renders the Icelander almost terse as a tick: the hour after one o?clock is tv?.

What about buses? Here numbers refer to identity rather than quantity. In Britain or America, we say something like, ?the No. 3 bus,? turning the number into a name. Icelanders do something similar. Their most frequent buses are each known by a special number word. In Reykjav?k, the No. 3 bus is simply ?ristur (whereas to count to three the Icelander says ??r?r?). Fjarki is how to say ?four? when talking buses in Iceland.

A third example is pairs of something?whether jeans or shorts, socks or shoes. In this case, Icelanders consider ?one? as being plural: einar pair of jeans, instead of the phrase book einn.

In English, I would suggest, numbers are considered more or less ethereal?as categories, not qualities. Not so the smallest numbers in Icelandic. It is as though each corresponded to a delicate nuance of color. Where the English word red is abstract, indifferent to its object, words like crimson, scarlet, and burgundy possess their own particular shade of meaning and application.

We can only speculate as to the reason why Icelanders stop at the number five (for which, like every number thereafter, a single word exists). According to psychologists, humans can count in flashes only up to quantities of four. We see three buttons on a shirt and say ?three?; we glance at four books on a table and say ?four.? No conscious thought attends this process?it seems to us as effortless as the speech with which we pronounce the words. The same psychologists tell us that the smallest numbers loom largest in our minds. Asked to pick a number between one and 50, we tend toward the shallow end of the scale (far fewer say ?40? than ?14?). It is one possible explanation for why only the commonest quantities feel real to us, why most numbers we accept only on the word of a teacher or textbook. Forty, to us, is but a vague notion; 14, on the other hand, is a quantity within our reach. Four, we recognize as something solid and definite. In Icelandic, you can give your baby the name ?Four.?

This profusion of Icelandic words for the purpose of counting appears to be an exception to the rule. Many of the world?s tribal languages, in contrast, make do with only a handful of names for numbers. The Veddas, an indigenous people of Sri Lanka, are reported to have only words for the numbers one (ekkamai) and two (dekkamai). For larger quantities, they continue: otameekai, otameekai, otameekai ... (?and one more, and one more, and one more ... ?). Another example is the Caquintes of Peru, who count one (aparo) and two (mavite). Three they call ?it is another one?; four is ?the one that follows it.?

In Brazil, the Munduruku relay quantity by according an extra syllable to each new number: one is pug, two is xep xep, three is ebapug, and four is edadipdip. They count, understandably, no higher than five.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_good_word/2013/07/cultural_differences_in_counting_numbers_and_math_icelandic_numbers_and.html

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Putin to Ukraine: You belong with Russia, not Europe

Ukraine is weighing trade deals with both the EU and Russia. Pressure is building on it to choose.

By Fred Weir,?Correspondent / July 29, 2013

Russian President Vladimir Putin (2nd from l.) meets with members of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday. Mr. Putin also met with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to urge that Ukraine join Putin's planned Eurasia customs union.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Ukraine over the weekend to attend a joint commemoration marking the 1,025th anniversary of Russia's conversion to Christianity, which took place in the original Russian state centered in Kiev.

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Mr. Putin used the occasion to press a far more secular and, for the Kremlin, urgent agenda. Ukraine is facing an historic choice that may determine its development for decades to come. Much of Russia's own strategic future plans also revolve around what it decides.

The Kremlin wants Ukraine to integrate economically with Russia by joining a Moscow-led customs union and then go on to become part of Putin's grand "Eurasian Union" of former-Soviet states, which would have an eastward-looking focus.

But Ukraine plans to sign a landmark association agreement with the European Union in November, which would grant it trade preferences with Europe and preclude membership in an alternative trading bloc such as Russia's customs union.

Putin arrived in Kiev Saturday, with Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church in tow, to attend lavish celebrations marking the day in 988 AD when Prince Vladimir of Kiev adopted Orthodox Christianity and then ordered a mass baptism of his subjects in the Dneiper River. Though the church has since fragmented, millions of Ukrainians still adhere to the Moscow-based church headed by Kirill.

But Putin's mind was clearly elsewhere.

"This day marks the unity of our peoples. We have several common questions we will be able to discuss during these days of celebrations. There will be another meeting tomorrow? where we will talk security," the Kremlin-funded English-language RT network quoted Putin as telling Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Ukraine was on a pro-Western path following the 2004 Orange Revolution, but that movement was reversed after the Russian-speaking Mr. Yanukovych won a hard-fought 2010 election, in part on pledges to repair Ukraine's tattered relations with Russia.

In the months that followed Yanukovych's election, he largely succeeded in reversing the Orange Revolution and, in particular, derailed Ukraine's bid to join the Western military alliance NATO. He also sealed good ties with Moscow by extending Russia's lease on Sevastopol, headquarters of the Russian navy's Black Sea fleet, by another 25 years.

However, Yanukovych has been unable ? or unwilling ? to deliver Ukrainian agreement to join the customs union, whose main members are Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, a step that might forever cement Ukraine into a Russian-led economic and political union of ex-Soviet countries. At the same time, he has insisted that Ukrainian cooperation with Europe shouldn't close the door to better relations with Moscow.

At a meeting with Ukrainian religious and political leaders Saturday, Putin made his best pitch for choosing the Russian path.

"Competition on global markets is very fierce today. I am sure that most of you realize that only by joining forces can we be competitive and stand a chance of winning in this tough environment. We have every reason too, to be confident that we should and can achieve this," Putin said, according to a Kremlin transcript of his remarks.

Putin argued that Ukraine was built up and industrialized within the USSR, and it still shares a considerable amount of common infrastructure with Russia. He claimed that living standards in Soviet Ukraine were even better than in some European countries, such as Italy.

"As you know, there are various integration processes underway now in the post-Soviet area.... There are facts that speak for themselves. Our bilateral trade with Ukraine fell by slightly over 18 percent in the first quarter of this year. Our trade with the customs union countries increased by 34 percent in 2011, by 11 percent, I think, in 2012, and was up by 2 or 3 percent in the first quarter of this year, despite the downturn in the global economy. We have steady growth," he said.

Putin added that Russia will respect Ukraine's choice, whatever it may be.

"Russia is really desperate, because Ukraine is the major trophy in Putin's Eurasian Union project. That's what leads Putin to pull out all the stops in the race to win this," says Sergei Strokan, a foreign affairs columnist with the Moscow daily Kommersant.

"Ukraine is trying to delay this choice as much as possible, because it wants to keep its European window open. But the Europeans have been quite tough, basically telling Ukraine that it can't sit on two chairs. Ukrainian public opinion is divided over this, but it seems that the dominant mood ? at least of the younger part of the population ? is for a European strategy. Trying to sit on two chairs is probably the best Yanukovych can do for Putin. But the European option is looming, and Ukraine will probably try to use it ? regardless of what Putin wants," Mr. Strokan says.

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When galaxies switch off: Hubble's COSMOS survey solves 'quenched' galaxy mystery

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Some galaxies hit a point in their lives when their star formation is snuffed out, and they become "quenched". Quenched galaxies in the distant past appear to be much smaller than the quenched galaxies in the Universe today. This has always puzzled astronomers -- how can these galaxies grow if they are no longer forming stars? A team of astronomers has now used a huge set of Hubble observations to give a surprisingly simple answer to this long-standing cosmic riddle.

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