Mexico on high alert for suspect in rape, kidnapping of L.A. girl

SAN DIEGO -- The search for the man suspected of kidnapping and repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old Northridge girl has extended south of the border after the fugitive was spotted crossing into Mexico, authorities said.

Video footage showed Tobias Dustin Summers, 32, crossed into Tecate, Mexico, a few days ago, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck announced Friday. It was unknown if he returned, the chief said.

Details of the video, including how it was obtained and the date it was taken, were not revealed. But sources said investigators believe it was taken after Summers was publicly identified as the suspect March 30.

Summers crossed on a ?pedestrian pathway,? LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said.

Mexican authorities confirmed they were assisting LAPD and searched a home in Tijuana on Tuesday but said leads on Summers? whereabouts remained slim.

Alfredo Arenas, commander of the Baja California state police fugitive squad, said Mexican authorities are in daily contact with LAPD officials. The suspect?s image appears in a ?wanted? poster distributed by the Tijuana Police Department, and police have been alerted in the Baja California cities of Tijuana, Tecate, Ensenada and Rosarito Beach.

?We want to find the guy before he rapes a Mexican kid,? Arenas said. ?We?re thinking that he did cross the border and he is on our side of the fence, but we don?t know exactly where.?

Summers was charged in his absence Wednesday on 36 counts of sexual assault as well as kidnapping and first-degree burglary, the Los Angeles County district attorney?s office said. If convicted, he faces multiple life terms in prison.

Police allege he was the one who took the 10-year-old from her home the night of March 27 during what sources say may have begun as a burglary. The girl, barefoot and appearing battered and bruised, was dropped off about 12 hours later in a Woodland Hills parking lot.

A criminal complaint alleges Summers broke into the home and used a knife to abduct the girl. He is charged with committing numerous sexual acts on the child and taking nude photos of her.

Also charged with kidnapping and burglary was Daniel Martinez, 29, who was arrested Sunday just two miles from the girl?s home. He pleaded not guilty in a San Fernando courtroom Wednesday. If convicted, he faces up to 12 years in prison.

Authorities have described Martinez as a secondary suspect in the crime, saying they believe he waited in a car outside the girl?s home and when Summers came out with her, drove a short distance before leaving.

?We don?t think Martinez knew there was going to be a kidnapping. He thought it was going to be a burglary,? LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese told The Times on Friday. ?It appears that immediately when he learned, he left the car.?

It was not known if Summers planned to take the girl or if he only intended to burglarize the home, Albanese said.

Court records show both men have extensive criminal histories, though authorities said neither is a registered sex offender. Law enforcement records indicate both were known to use drugs, and Summers was a member of the Peckerwood gang.

Summers has convictions for receiving stolen property, possession of an explosive and presenting false identification to police, according to records. In 2009, he was convicted of battery. Originally, he was also charged with annoying a child, but that charge was dismissed.

Between 2004 and 2012, Martinez was convicted of burglary, petty theft, grand theft, resisting a police officer and unlawfully entering a property, according to records. In April 2012, he was convicted of making threats of death or great bodily injury.

It's unclear how long either suspect has spent behind bars. But it appears Summers received an eight-month prison sentence in the petty theft case, and Martinez was sentenced to 16 months in prison in the grand theft case.

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Facebook barges into Google turf with Home

NEW YORK (AP) ? Facebook Home, the new application that takes over the front screen of a smartphone, is a bit of a corporate home invasion. Facebook is essentially moving into Google's turf, taking advantage of software the search giant and competitor created.

Facebook Home will operate on phones running Google Inc.'s Android software and present Facebook status updates, messages and other content on the home screen, rather than making the user fire up Facebook's app. The software will be available for users to download on April 12 and will come preloaded on a new phone from HTC Corp., sold by AT&T Inc. in the U.S.

Google gives away Android, the most popular smartphone software in the world, in the hope that it will steer phone users toward Google services, such as Maps and Gmail, and the ads it sells. Compared to ads targeting PC surfers, mobile ads are a small market, but it's growing quickly. Research firm eMarketer expects U.S. mobile ad spending to grow 77 percent this year to $7.29 billion.

With Home, Facebook is inserting itself between users and Google, diverting them to the social network's own ads and services. It's taking advantage of the fact that Google places few restrictions on how phone manufacturers and software developers modify Android. By contrast, Facebook Home would not work on the iPhone without approval from Apple Inc., and close collaboration with the company.

"Facebook Home can only reside on Android because only Google was daft enough to allow it," said independent phone analyst Horace Dediu, via Twitter.

At the launch event Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Google was aware of the project, but Facebook didn't work them to create Home. Asked if he believed Google could change tactics and restrict apps like Home, he said it was theoretically possible, but highly unlikely for Google to do a "180-degree change" in its stance on Android's openness.

It's not the first time a big Internet company has co-opted Android: Amazon.com has gone much farther with its Kindle Fire tablets. They run a version of Android that strips out all Google services, replacing them with Amazon's equivalents. Barnes & Noble Inc. does the same thing with its Nook tablets. These devices lie outside the Google system, whereas phones running Facebook Home still come with Google apps like Maps and the Play Store for music, movies and applications.

The Play Store has many examples of downloadable applications that modify the Android home screen ? so-called "launchers." Home, however, represents the first time a major Internet company and Google competitor has created a downloadable launcher.

J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth said Home may increase the pressure on Google to find ways to get people to spend more time on its Plus social network, which so far hasn't been as magnetic as Facebook's hangout. Anmuth also thinks the communication tools built into Home could decrease usage of Google's Gmail and Gchat services.

But Zuckerberg said the app will help Google.

"I think this is really good for Android," he told the audience at the launch event in Menlo Park, Calif. Developers do their best work on the iPhone first, but with Home, Facebook is putting Android first. If consumers want the Facebook Home experience, they'll have to get an Android phone.

In a statement, Google seemed to agree. "This latest device demonstrates the openness and flexibility that has made Android so popular," it said.

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AP Technology Writers Barbara Ortutay and Michael Liedtke contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/facebook-barges-google-turf-home-070753160--finance.html

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Miami's Larranaga, Michigan's Burke win AP awards

ATLANTA (AP) ? Jim Larranaga made his mark as a basketball coach years ago at places like Bowling Green and George Mason. This season, with his Miami Hurricanes enjoying unprecedented success, Larranaga showed he has impressive footwork.

Minutes after he was introduced Thursday as The Associated Press' coach of the year, the 63-year-old, two-time hip replacement patient was asked about his postgame Ali shuffle after the Hurricanes' 63-59 victory over Illinois in the third round of the NCAA tournament.

"When we left Coral Gables for the NCAA tournament I told the players I was going to have more fun than any other coach and I wanted them to have more fun than any other team," Larranaga said. "It doesn't mean be silly and goof off. It means enjoy each other's company, when we practice be excited about being there, have some enthusiasm, be very, very positive."

Larranaga admitted that he plans a lot of the things he does with his team but what happened after the Illinois game was off the cuff.

"During the hard fought game at almost every timeout in the second half I said we're in a fight and I need fighters. I told them we needed to fight to get every rebound, every loose ball, every basket, every inch of the floor," he recounted. "I kept repeating that and after we won, as I was walking into the locker room to address them, I thought I have to congratulate them on how well they fought and the first name I thought of was Muhammad Ali.

"I asked you guys to fight and what I saw out there was Muhammad Ali and the shuffle followed. The best thing was the reaction of the players who jumped up and started shadow boxing."

Larranaga and his quick combination of punches is still in every promotional clip for the tournament, even though the Hurricanes were eliminated by Marquette in the round of 16.

Larranaga led Miami to the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season and tournament titles ? the first in school history ? and a school-best No. 2 ranking. The Hurricanes finished 29-7 in Larranaga's second season.

The AP's player of the year wasn't able to make the presentation because he and his teammates were at practice, getting ready for the Final Four.

Michigan sophomore guard Trey Burke was the player of the year after leading a young group of Wolverines to Michigan's deepest run since the Fab Five era in 1992 and '93, when the Wolverines played in back-to-back championships. They take on Syracuse in the national semifinals Saturday.

Burke joins Cazzie Russell in 1966 as the only Michigan players to win the award. The Big Ten player of the year, Burke averaged 19.2 points, 3.1 rebounds and 6.7 assists. He shot 40.1 percent from behind the 3-point line.

"He has been with three to five freshmen all year long," Michigan coach John Beilein said Thursday. "Here he is this cagey sophomore, veteran sophomore.

"Come on, the whole year he has been just as calm and cool as if he was a fifth-year redshirt senior guard. So you look at that.

"Those young guys look at Trey, they see poise, they see patience. It's worked very well."

The voting was by the same 65-member national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25. Ballots had to be returned by Selection Sunday.

Burke received 31 votes while Otto Porter Jr. of Georgetown was second with 16 votes and Victor Oladipo of Indiana got 10.

Larranaga received 29 votes, Jim Crews of Saint Louis got 19 and Mark Few of Gonzaga had 11.

Larranaga is the first Miami coach to win the award and is the first Atlantic Coast Conference coach to get it since Roy Williams of North Carolina in 2006.

Larranaga, a New York native who led George Mason to the Final Four in 2006, was told Burke wouldn't be able to attend the news conference because Michigan was at practice.

"Boy, I wish I was," he said, meaning every word.

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Android 4.1.2 update reportedly rolling out to Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus GT-P6210 in Austria (Europe)

This is a great way to start the day! Samsung Electronics apparently has started rolling out Android 4.1.2 software update to Samsung?Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus tablets in Europe (Austria). The update could be available in other European countries too.

According to SamMobile the firmware build date is March 25th and the?PDA is P6200XXMC3,?CSC: P6200OXAMC3. The update should be available via Samsung Kies software for Austrian owners. If somebody in Europe manages to pull the update on its Galaxy Tab 7 Plus, please leave a comment down below about your experience after upgrade.

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Listening to the Big Bang -- in high fidelity

Apr. 4, 2013 ? A decade ago, spurred by a question for a fifth-grade science project, University of Washington physicist John Cramer devised an audio recreation of the Big Bang that started our universe nearly 14 billion years ago.

Now, armed with more sophisticated data from a satellite mission observing the cosmic microwave background -- a faint glow in the universe that acts as sort of a fossilized fingerprint of the Big Bang -- Cramer has produced new recordings that fill in higher frequencies to create a fuller and richer sound. (The sound files run from 20 seconds to a little longer than 8 minutes. See link at bottom of article.)

The effect is similar to what seismologists describe as a magnitude 9 earthquake causing the entire planet to actually ring. In this case, however, the ringing covered the entire universe -- before it grew to such gargantuan proportions.

"Space-time itself is ringing when the universe is sufficiently small," Cramer said.

In 2001, Cramer wrote a science-based column for Analog Science Fiction & Fact magazine describing the likely sound of the Big Bang based on cosmic microwave background radiation observations taken from balloon experiments and satellites.

A couple of years later that article prompted a question from a mother in Pennsylvania whose 11-year-old son was working on a project about the Big Bang: Is the sound of the Big Bang actually recorded anywhere?

Cramer answered that it wasn't -- but then began thinking that it could be. He used data from the cosmic microwave background on temperature fluctuations in the very early universe. The data on those wavelength changes were fed into a computer program called Mathematica, which converted them to sound. A 100-second recording represents the sound from about 380,000 years after the Big Bang until until about 760,000 years after the Big Bang.

"The original sound waves were not temperature variations, though, but were real sound waves propagating around the universe," he said.

Cramer noted, however, that the 2003 data lacked high-frequency structure. More complete data were recently gathered by an international collaboration using the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission, which has detectors so sensitive that they can distinguish temperature variations of a few millionths of a degree in the cosmic microwave background. That data were released in late March and led to the new recordings.

As the universe cooled and expanded, it stretched the wavelengths to create "more of a bass instrument," Cramer said. The sound gets lower as the wavelengths are stretched farther, and at first it gets louder but then gradually fades. The sound was, in fact, so "bass" that he had to boost the frequency 100 septillion times (that's a 100 followed by 24 more zeroes) just to get the recordings into a range where they can be heard by humans.

Cramer is a UW physics professor who has been part of a large collaboration studying what the universe might have been like moments after the Big Bang by causing collisions between heavy ions such as gold in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

Creating a sound profile for the Big Bang was something to do on the side, Cramer said.

"It was an interesting thing to do that I wanted to share. It's another way to look at the work these people are doing," he said.

Sound of the Big Bang are available in several lengths here: http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound_2013.html

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Mars rover takes some downtime

4 April 2013 Last updated at 12:58 ET By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

The US space agency's Curiosity Mars rover is about to enter several weeks of low activity as the Red Planet moves behind the Sun as viewed from Earth.

The alignment interferes with normal communications.

Curiosity will remain stationary throughout the rest of April, collecting only weather and other environmental data.

Periodically, the robot will send a beep via its low-gain antenna to inform controllers on Earth that all is well.

"It's a very simple signal, like a 'yes' or a 'no', and that will tell us that the vehicle is OK, or at least doesn't believe it has any problems," Jim Erickson, the Curiosity deputy project manager at Nasa, told BBC News.

The rover landed on Mars in August last year and has been exploring the floor of the equatorial Gale Crater ever since.

Locked off

So-called solar conjunctions that put Mars and Earth on opposite sides of the Sun occur roughly every 26 months.

Radio transmissions become highly degraded during these periods.

Messages sent from Mars, such as pictures, can suffer data gaps. Of greater concern, however, is the possibility that commands from Earth sent up to spacecraft could become corrupted. Nasa will not even attempt such practice as this could confuse the computers on the spacecraft.

Instead, Curiosity is being sent a series of instructions in advance to hold it over. The last of these will probably go up early on Friday.

The robot will not then be commanded again until 1 May.

Curiosity is being put in a parking mode with its camera mast and robotic arm locked in safe positions.

Only the REMS meteorological station and the RAD experiment, which senses the radiation environment around the rover, will be left collecting data.

This information will be transmitted to Nasa's two satellites at Mars.

But because the orbiters are also affected by the same radio interference, they will not get a clean data relay until after solar conjunction.

Team relief

The Odyssey satellite may be able to get some information back to Earth, but the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will simply store Curiosity data until the conjunction is over.

Nasa's other Mars rover, Opportunity, has already gone through four solar conjunctions since landing on the Red Planet in 2004.

It, too, will engage in some low-level science activity that does not involve driving.

Jim Erickson said the next three weeks offered some important downtime for engineering and science teams, especially on the Curiosity project.

"We're telling the troops, 'you've really done a great job, you've been pushing hard since landing, but now's the time to go home and remember what your families look like. And we'll see you again in May.'"

Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

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Avril Lavigne: Nude on New Single Cover!

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