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Showing posts with label 2017 at 06:07PM. Show all posts
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Monday, October 9, 2017
Nick Kyrgios feuds with umpire in straight-sets loss to Rafael Nadal in China Open final
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Sunday, June 18, 2017
North Korean soldier swims across river to defect
A North Korean soldier has fled to South Korea by swimming across the Han River, the second defection in a week.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the man had swum across a particularly narrow part of the fast-moving river after attaching foam to his shoulders to help him stay afloat.
Last week, a North Korean soldier walked across the heavily-guarded border that separates the countries.
Soldiers had previously been defecting at the rate of about one a year.
The latest defector, thought to be in his early twenties, was spotted at Gimpo, just west of the southern capital Seoul, Yonhap news agency reported.
He screamed “Don’t kill me, I am here to defect”, at a South Korean marine who had seen him, Yonhap said.
The soldier will now be questioned by military officials.
North and South Korea are technically still at war, since the conflict between them ended in 1953 with a truce, not a formal peace treaty.
Seoul says more than 30,000 North Koreans have defected to the South since the end of the Korean War, the majority via China, which has the longest border with the North…
Source: North Korean soldier swims across river to defect – BBC News
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Omran Daqneesh, young face of Aleppo suffering, seen on Syrian TV
Omran caught the world’s attention when he was filmed, dazed, sitting in an ambulance after being pulled from the rubble of his family’s home last August, after an apparent regime or Russian airstrike.
He is silent despite the cacophony around him, and reaches up to touch his bloodied temple. He pulls his hand away, sticky with blood, and looks at it uncomprehendingly.
“He was in extreme shock,” a spokesman for the Aleppo Media Center, an activist group, said at the time. He was taken to hospital but released shortly after.
Rescue workers at the time said several other people were killed and many more wounded by the airstrike, including women and children. Omran’s 10-year-old brother Ali was among the dead.
Source: Omran Daqneesh, young face of Aleppo suffering, seen on Syrian TV – CNN.com
Saturday, June 3, 2017
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Sunday, April 23, 2017
How to turn on ‘Undo Send’ in Gmail so you can take back emails
The feature rolled out to the general public in 2015, and allows people with a Gmail account to set a window of time — either 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds — during which the sender can quickly retract a decision to fire off any particularly ill-conceived company-wide emails.
The SUPER IMPORTANT PART is that you have to turn the feature on before you send that questionable email. So all of you that just cathartically pounded out “I quit” messages hoping to quickly undo them are out of luck.
Thankfully, turning the feature on is incredibly simple. Log into your Gmail account, click on the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, and select Settings. Next, scroll down to the check box labeled “Enable Undo Send” and select it. You can then choose a “send cancellation period” of the aforementioned 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds.
Lastly, scroll down and click “save changes.” Don’t forget this part.
The next time you scribble off a missive and toss it into the digital void you’ll have the chance to pull it back in all its typo-ridden glory. With Undo Send enabled, you sleep better at night knowing your email has a fail-safe — even if the rest of the world is a terrible mess.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Bus crash kills 44 in northern India: official
The bus with 56 passengers on board plunged into a river in northern Himachal Pradesh state around 115 kilometres (70 miles) from the capital Shimla.
“A preliminary report shows that a private bus fell into a gorge and has killed more than 40 people. The latest report given to me shows 44 people have been killed,” Rohan Chand Thakur, district commissioner of Shimla, told AFP.
Police rushed to the scene where rescue efforts were underway, he added. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident, or whether any of the survivors were injured.
India has some of the world’s deadliest roads with more than 150,000 fatalities annually due to poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.
Source: Bus crash kills 44 in northern India: official – Yahoo7
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
Premier seeks advice to sack Perth council
WA Premier Mark McGowan says he will sack the City of Perth council if he is able to after it was reported councillors were asked to sign a statutory declaration that they had not been in contact with journalists about certain matters.
Mr McGowan said the statutory declaration was unacceptable and that he would follow due process to see if he could remove the council, which he described as an “embarrassment” to the state.
“I’ve been dissatisfied and angry at the City of Perth now for a long period of time,” he told reporters on Friday.
“You can’t threaten the press, you can’t threaten people with the prospect of prosecution for talking to the press.”
Source: Premier seeks advice to sack Perth council | Perth Now
Friday, March 10, 2017
Congress doesn’t like Trump’s deleted tweets (and it’s not because of the typos)
On Wednesday, the Committee on Government Oversight and Reform sent a letter to the White House expressing concern about the way Trump deletes those typo-filled tweets, preventing them from being cataloged properly by the Presidential Records Act.
The letter, signed by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in a rare Trump Era show of bipartisanship, also addressed additional concerns about White House employees using private, non-government emails and encryption apps like Signal and Confide to communicate.
White House staff was reportedly using the app to avoid media leaks) but criticizes use of such apps as a means of “circumventing requirements established by federal recordkeeping and transparency laws.”
Like the president, federal employees are also subject to an act that archives their communications, the Federal Records Act. The letter closes by requesting the White House submit names of federal employees who have used private emails and what its policy is when it comes to archiving those emails.
That act was implemented in 1978, after the Watergate scandal, make those archives public and putting them under the care of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). And with the expansion of social media — and the president’s use of it — so, too, must specialists file away all those tweets.
And Trump has deleted a lot of tweets, mostly for typos. Like on Friday when it took him three tries to get a tweet up with the word “hereby” correctly spelled. (Though other tweets, like his Saturday morning misspelling of the word “tap” as “tapp,” remain published.)
Source: Congress doesn’t like Trump’s deleted tweets (and it’s not because of the typos)
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