The Michigan Daily - michigandaiiy.com Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 3A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS DETROIT Gov. Snyder to discuss Detroit finances Thursday Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is planning to discuss Detroit's financial situation on Thursday. The governor is expected to hold an afternoon round table with the media in Detroit. Sny- der's office says he isn't planning to announce if he'll appoint an emergency manager, but instead to provide an update on where things stand. The Republican governor has less than amonthto decide wheth- er the state will take over the city's broken finances and send in some- one to oversee a recovery. GROSSE POINTE SHORES, Mich. Facebook problem causes elderly to lie about age Facebook is apologizing for a problem that makes a 104-year- old Michigan woman lie about her age on the social media website. Marguerite Joseph's grand- daughter says Facebook won't let Joseph list her real age. GailMarlowsayswhenshetries inputting her grandmother's birth year as 1908, Facebook changes it to 1928. So for the past two years, the Grosse Pointe Shores cente- narian has remained 99 - online, anyway. Joseph is legally blind and can't hear well, but Marlow reads and responds to all her Facebook mes- sages. Marlow tells WDIV-TV she'd "love to see" Joseph's real age posted and chalks it up to "a glitch in the system." PHEONIX Ariz. slaying suspect can't recall most of killing A woman charged with killing her lover testified Wednesday that she has no recollection of stabbing him, slitting his throat or even whether she shot him during a fight at his Arizona home nearly five years ago. Jodi Arias, 32, has spent eight daysonthewitness stand recount- ing in precise detail one life event after another - from an abusive childhood to dead-end jobs and ex-boyfriends - but when pressed Wednesday about how she killed Travis Alexander, she drew a blank, noting there was a "huge gap" in her memory from that day in June 2008. Arias spent the rest of the day explaining to jurors why she repeatedly lied about her involve- ment in the killing, first telling authorities she knew nothing about Alexander's death, then later blamingit on masked intrud- ers. She eventually settled on self- defense. TEHRAN Wrestlers to protest Olympic ruling to drop sport Wrestlers from the world's top wrestling nations plan to lie on their mats Thursday in Tehran in a unique show of unity to protest a decision by the International Olympic Committee to drop wres- tling from the 2020 games. Csaba Hegedus, a senior offi- cial with the international wres- tling federation, announced the decision at a meeting attended by officials from the world's top wrestling countries late Wednes- day in Tehran. Iran's Wrestling Federation says members of wrestling teams attending the World Cup Tour- nament in Iran also will observe a minute of silence to demon- strate their opposition to the decision. The fight to keep wrestling in the Olympics has brought Iran and the U.S. into a rare alliance, a remarkable display of common cause despite political hostility between them. -Compiled from Daily wire reports Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, seen here giving a statement on a the state's lottery contracto "Fehro- ary 14, has launched into state prosecutors' handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual-abuse case. NCAA challenges rulingL in Jerry Sandusky scandal S4 fur br HA The N challe nia la $60 over t dal in challe hours signed Star maker the NI abuse other: The eral j Penns Highe Penalt ing it, U.S. C for an law fr Def are C officia in har money treasu ays keeping all Pennsylvania Commission on nding in state is Crime and Delinquency. Corbett believes the bill eech of consent "makes sense and is the right thing to do," spokeswoman agreement Janet Kelley said. The lawsuit is under review, she said. Penn State signed a consent RRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - decree last summer in which it ICAA wasted no time in agreed to the fine, a four-year nging a new Pennsylva- football bowl ban and other w designed to keep the penalties shortly after a scath- million Penn State fine ing report into how school he Jerry Sandusky scan- officials handled reports that the state, filing a federal Sandusky, a former assistant nge to the legislation football coach, was behaving after Gov. Tom Corbett inappropriately with children. lit Wednesday. He was convicted of sexually te and congressional law- abusing 10 boys and is serving 's have objected to use of a 30- to 60-year prison sen- CAA fine to finance child tence. prevention efforts in "By seizing the funds and states. restricting eligibility to benefit complaint asks a fed- from the funds only to Pennsyl- udge to throw out the vania programs benefiting only ylvania Institution of Pennsylvania residents, the act r Education Monetary will defeat the consent decree's ty Endowment Act, say- plain terms and frustrate the violates provisions of the parties' intended purpose," the -onstitution. It also asks NCAA's lawyers wrote. injunction to prevent the The lawsuit claims the new om being enforced. legislation is unconstitutional 'endants in the lawsuit because it directs state officials orbett and three state to collect money to which the is who would be involved state is not entitled. It argues ndling or monitoring the the state has no legal right to y: the auditor general, abridge the contract between rer and chairman of the the NCAA and Penn State and says the new law tries to regu- late transactions by out-of- state entities in violation of the Commerce Clause. NCAA President Mark Emmert released a statement saying that it was important that the organization's mem- bers abide by its rules and that college sports would be "dra- matically altered" if others are responsible for deciding what penalties are appropriate. NCAA lawyer Donald Remy said the lawsuit concerned legal issues of importance to anyone who does business with state-related or private entities. "The state has attempted to grant itself the ability to do whatever it wants to whom- ever it wants," Remy said. "The United States Constitution does not permit this kind of legislative overreach." Joe Metz, a Harrisburg lawyer with federal litigation experience, said the NCAA's lawsuit had promise, par- ticularly because the law was passed after the consent agree- ment was signed. "It's impossible to predict how somethinglike this will go, but it's definitely something I'd read carefully and think about, that's for sure," said Metz, who is not involved in the case. NYPD partners with Microsoft New technology the information and pulled up cameras within 500 feet of the could supply crime reported shots to determine there was only one shooter. information 0to Analysts are cautious about officers in real-time the potential profits, saying that largely depends on Micro- soft's sales efforts and whether (AP) - A 911 call comes in any major competition arises. about a possible bomb in lower While there other data-drilling Manhattan and an alert pops products made by other com- up on computer screens at the panies, they say the NYPD's New York Police Department, involvement could set the dash- instantly showing officers an board apart. interactive map of the neigh- "This is the kind of stuff borhood, footage from nearby you used to only see in mov- security cameras, whether ies," said analyst Rob Enderle there are high radiation levels of Enderle Group, a technol- and whether any other threats ogy analysis firm. "Getting it have been made against the to work in a way that police city, departments can use in real In a click, police know exact- time is huge." ly what they're getting into. The venture began in 2009 Such a hypothetical scenario when the NYPD approached may seem like something out Microsoft about building soft- of a futuristic crime drama, ware to help mine data for the but the technology is real, Lower Manhattan Security Ini- developed in a partnership tiative, a network of private and between the nation's largest public cameras and other tools police department and Micro- monitored by the department's soft Corp., and the latest ver- counterterrorism bureau. sion has been quietly in use for Development cost the depart- about a year. ment between $30 million and The project could pay off in $40 million, officials said. more ways than one: The NYPD "Usually, you purchase soft- could make tens of millions of ware that you try to work with, dollars under an unprecedent- but we wanted this to be some- ed marketing deal that allows thing that really worked well Microsoft to sell the system to for us, so we set about creat- other law enforcement agencies ing it with them," said Richard and civilian companies around Daddario, the NYPD's deputy the world. The city will get a 30 commissioner for counterter- percent cut. rorism. The Domain Awareness Sys- Officers were involved tem, known as the dashboard, throughout the process with gives easy access to the police the programmers, offering department's voluminous advice on what they need dur- arrest records, 911 calls, more ing an emergency. than 3,000 security cameras "It was created by cops for citywide, license plate readers cops," Tisch said. "We thought and portable radiation detec- a lot about what information tors - data that raises privacy we want up close and personal, concerns for some civil liber- and what needs to be a click ties groups. But the dashboard away. It's all baked in there." system mines existing tools and The system uses hundreds of doesn't create any new surveil- thousands of pieces of informa- lance. tion. Security camera footage Right now, it is used only in can be rewound five minutes so NYPD offices, mostly in the that officers can see suspects counterterrorism unit. Even- who may have fled. Sensors tually, the system could supply pick up whether a bag has been crime-fighting information in left sitting for awhile. When an real time to officers on lap- emergency call comes in, offi- tops in their squad cars and on cers can check prior 911 calls mobile devices while they walk from that address to see what the beat. they might be up against. "It works incredibly well," Prospective clients can cus- said Jessica Tisch, director tomize it to fit their organiza- of planning and policy for the tion. counterterrorism unit. Dave Mosher, a Microsoft For example, officers used vice president in charge of pro- the system during a deadly gram management, said the shooting outside the Empire company started to market the State Building in August. 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Iran already announced last week that it had begun mount- ing the new enriching centri- fuges, but one diplomat said at the time that the announce- ment was premature with only a "small number" on site and not yet installed. Diplomats told The Associ- ated Press on Wednesday, how- ever, that installation was now well on its way, with inspec- tors from the International Atomic Energy Agency seeing close to 100 or more machines mounted when they toured the site a few days ago. Depending on experts' estimates, the new- generation centrifuges can enrich uranium three to five times faster than Iran's present working model. The Islamic Republic insists it is not working on a nuclear weapons program, but rather is enriching uranium only to make reactor fuel and for scien- tific and medical purposes - as allowed by international law. But many nations are sus- picious because Iran went underground after failing to get international help for its uranium enrichment pro- gram in the 1980s, working secretly until its activities were revealed a decade ago. More recent proposals for interna- tional shipments of reactor fuel in exchange for Iranian enrich- ment concessions have foun- dered, with each side blaming the other. Shrugging off demands to mothball enrichment - and growing international sanc- tions - Iran has instead vast- ly expanded the program to where experts say it already has enough enriched uranium for several weapons if the material is further enriched. The start of the centrifuge upgrade at Natanz, Iran's main enrichment site southeast of Tehran, flies in the face of world-power efforts to induce Iran to scale back on enrich- ment. As such, it is likely to hurt chances of progress at Feb. 26 talks in Kazakhstan between the two sides - adding to a string of negotiating failures. When Iran announced its intentions last month, West- ern diplomats downplayed the proclamation's significance, noting Tehran did not say when it would start populating Natanz with the new machines. But any start of an upgrade is sure to increase international concerns, particularly if veri- fied as expected in an IAEA report later this week. The three diplomats speaking to the AP on Wednesday all are involved in the Vienna-based IAEA's attempts to monitor Iran's nuclear program. They demanded anonymity because they were not allowed to discuss confidential information. Meeting Iran in Kazakhstan are the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Ger- many. Russia and China often are at odds with the West on how harshly Iran's nuclear activi- ties should be censured, and Russian Foreign Minister Ser- gei Lavrov said recently that Iran was within its legal rights to install new generation cen- trifuges. At the same time, he called for a suspension of ura- nium enrichment during nego- tiations to improve the political atmosphere. While moving to increase the potency of its enrichment program with the new centri- fuges, however, Tehran also has recently resumed convert- ing some of its higher-level enriched uranium at its Fordo enrichment site into reactor fuel plates after suspending the activity last year. That is likely to provide some reassurance to nations concerned about Iran's nuclear aims because the plates are difficult to reconvert back into weapons usable material. About 700 of the old machines at Fordo are churning out high- er-enriched material that is still below - but just a technical step away - from weapons-grade uranium. Iran says it needs that higher-enriched level to fuel a research reactor. With higher-enriched ura- nium their immediate concern, the six powers over the past months have inched toward meeting Iranian demands of sanctions relief but say Teh- ran must first suspend its output at Fordo. Iran, in turn, wants sanctions eased before it commits to even a discussion of an enrichment cutback.