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House Republican Leader State Rep. Themis Klarides lives in Derby and also represents the towns of Woodbridge and Orange.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man has been arrested after allegedly pretending to be a sheriff’s deputy at Sacramento International Airport.
The Sheriff’s Department says a deputy was called to the airport Wednesday night by a report of a possible abandoned police car.
He encountered 33-year-old Brad Beaver, who was leaving the terminal. Authorities say Beaver had parked his car in a loading zone and was wearing a deputy’s uniform complete with a badge and a Glock handgun.
The suspicious deputy held Beaver. Authorities who searched Beaver’s Folsom home say they found guns, ammunition, ballistic vests, badges and sheriff’s insignia.
Authorities say Beaver never worked as a peace officer in California. He was arrested on suspicion of having illegal weapons and impersonating an office.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Speculation that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will soon visit Seoul for the first time has sparked debate in South Korea over how to allow citizens to express often strongly held views while preventing any international incidents.
To pull off the summit he wants – full of inspiring imagery of Korean unity and reconciliation - President Moon Jae-in needs to walk a fine line between providing sufficient security for Kim and being accused of stifling speech to appease a dictator.
Unlike tightly controlled Singapore, where Kim took a surprise night time stroll before his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in June, Seoul is routinely roiled by protests.
Many South Koreans still take a dim view of North Korea in the wake of their 1950-53 war and decades of hostility, making the risk of disruptions to the visit high.
A summit in Seoul now appears unlikely this year, but small yet vocal groups of conservative protesters who routinely gather on Seoul streets to protest against Moon or to urge Trump to bomb North Korea have already mobilized to protest any visit by Kim.
At a recent rally in downtown Seoul, banners read “Let’s punish Kim Jong Un” and organizers said they intend to try to “arrest” the North Korean leader.
“Once (Kim) steps on our land he will be captured and no one can take responsibility for what will happen afterwards,” Ihn Ji-yeon, a leader with the far-right Korea Patriots Party told Reuters at the rally.
Seoul police declined to comment on those claims.
Opposing groups have also been vocal in wanting to welcome Kim and calling for more engagement with the North, encouraged by a relaxation in enforcement of national security laws.
At their summit in Pyongyang in September, Kim told Moon he would visit Seoul “at an early date”. South Korean officials pressed for it to happen this year, but they now say that appears unlikely.
Any summit in Seoul would likely be overshadowed by a lack of progress on negotiations between North Korea and the United States over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.
That could leave Moon and Kim little leeway to progress their goals of declaring an official end to the Korean War, forging closer ties and resuming joint economic projects.
Kim’s visit would be the first by a North Korean leader to the South, so security forces of both sides would be treading on unknown ground.
The security office of South Korea’s presidential Blue House would likely oversee the whole operation, while North Korean security forces would conduct inspections ahead of time, as well as provide personal protection for Kim during the visit, said Lee Man-jong, a law and police professor at Seoul’s Howon University.
At the 2010 G20 summit, Seoul mobilized about 50,000 security forces, and about 35,000 for Trump’s state visit in November last year, Lee said.
Police sources said South Korean authorities are likely to declare the highest level of emergency preparedness for a Kim visit.
Under that plan, all five of Seoul’s 1,200-officer-strong police divisions specializing in crowd control would be mobilized, with all annual leave canceled for police officers, said one police official, who asked not to be named as he was not authorized to speak publicly.
Tens of thousands of other officers would likely be called up from other police and government agencies, including the military, he said.
Some critics of the Moon administration say they fear authorities will work with North Korean security to tamp down even peaceful displays of opposition to Kim.
Another lawmaker who visited Pyongyang during the September Korean summit told South Korean media Kim Jong Un acknowledged the likelihood of protesters if he visits, but did not seem concerned by the “disagreeing voices” he might face.
A spokesperson for South Korea’s presidential Blue House said Moon’s administration would “strive to actively communicate” with critics of a Kim visit.
During the summit with Trump in Singapore, local police, hotel staff, and North Korean security guards at Kim’s hotel would warn onlooking guests to keep their phones down and forced some who were caught taking photos of Kim to erase them.
A man armed with a handgun robbed a bank in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond District on Thursday afternoon, according to a police spokesman.
At around 1 p.m., the male suspect entered a bank in the 3600 block of Balboa Street, near the Balboa Theatre.
The suspect, holding a handgun, approached a female bank teller and demanded money, according to San Francisco police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza.
The teller complied with the suspect’s demand and handed over cash. After taking the cash, the suspect fled from the bank on foot and has not yet been located, Esparza said.
The suspect is described as a clean-shaven black man between 40 and 45 years old with a medium build, standing about 6 feet 2 inches tall, according to Esparza.
He was wearing a multi-colored sweatshirt and black eyeglasses at the time of the robbery.
Esparza said surveillance cameras from the bank and from the street are being reviewed.
A little more than a month ago, my friends Clay Broga and Dan Hayes of Freethink Media forwarded me the trailer to a documentary they plan to release in November and asked that I consider sharing the video with my own friends and colleagues. I watched the trailer — and tears started to stream down my face. I immediately forwarded it to my extended family.
Apparently, I wasn’t the only one to find this two-minute tribute to veterans like my family members moving enough to share. Dan and Clay hoped to hit 50,000 views by today, Memorial Day. Instead, through Facebook Causes, they’ve reached nearly 4 million.
Filming the documentary has also had a profound impact on Dan and Clay.
Making this film has been life-changing for me. It’s led me to reflect on my priorities in life … and the way I live my life, in ways I never have before. For Memorial Day, I encourage you to reflect on Stars and Stripes Honor Flight’s motto, “Every day is a bonus” and what it really means to live free in this great country. I know I am.
I’m taking his suggestion — and I hope you will, too.
In the wake of the the police killings of two black men and the sniper attack that killed five Dallas area police officers last week, Black Lives Matter demonstrations swept the country. FSRN’s Lena Nozizwe has more.
Jasmine Abdullah finds her footing on a barricade that lines the Los Angeles Police Department’s headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. The compact African-American woman in a bright red dashiki leans in and verbally hurls her anger about police shootings of people of color and members of the LGBT community at the uniformed policemen and women who guard the back entrance to the building.
Fellow protesters place their hands on Abdullah, as if to hold her back so the leader of the Pasadena chapter of Black Lives Matter won’t get arrested – again. Last month, Abdullah was convicted of what until recently was called “felony lynching” -which is defined as attempting to free someone from police custody.
On this day her back is to a crowd of hundreds of fellow protesters as she verbalizes her anger. But a closer look at the 28 year-old’s face finds tears streaming down.
Tears and anger are a common mash up of emotions among protesters.
Dr. Brian H. Williams is a black trauma surgeon at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas who tried to save officers who were shot in the Dallas attack.
Portions of the police shooting incidents were captured on video, exacerbating reaction and enlarging protests.
In the aftermath of the killings, street demonstrations around the country shut down freeways in Los Angeles, Oakland, Wichita, Atlanta, Miami, as well as Baton Rouge and Minneapolis this week.
The Black Lives Matters movement has also been running in the background of global protests – from Ireland to South Africa. And while critics accuse the movement of racism, non-black comrades have been consistent part of demonstrations for police accountability since the police shooting death of Michael Brown almost two years ago.
In fact, organizers of this week’s freeway shut down in Minneapolis described themselves as white and non-black. And whites, Latinos and Asians dominated a protest in Beverly Hills last Saturday that winded past Gucci, Lanvin, Tom Ford and other luxury goods stores on Rodeo Drive.
Multi-racial solidarity has been evident in unexpected corners as well – like among gang members from the Crips and Bloods, who have come together in cities like Atlanta and Los Angeles to call for peace.
After attending the police memorial in Dallas, President Obama returned to the White House Wednesday and convened a forum on race. Those in attendance included prominent Black Lives Matter organizers, the governor of Louisiana, law enforcement representatives and mayors, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Local Bodies Minister Anil Joshi on Tuesday directed officials to clear cases pertaining to Change of Land Use (CLU) and building plans that are lying pending in Punjab. To ensure that his directive is being the implemented,he will visit different cities and hold public camps.
Joshi said this move will prove to be a boon for thousands of applicants,whose cases are lying pending in districts. “After Amritsar and Ludhiana,the department will hold such camps in Jalandhar,Patiala and Bathinda to clear the pendency of CLU and building plan cases… Instructions have been issued to the authorities to provide CLU and approval for building plans within a stipulated time limit,” he said.
“Officers concerned will be held responsible for any kind of delay in providing CLUs and building plans. Strict action will be initiated against them,” the minister added.
Joshi further said that Punjab has been divided into eight clusters for door-to-door collection of garbage. “Installation of solid waste management plants were on full swing in Ludhiana,Bathinda and Ferozepur while the tender for the Jalandhar cluster has been floated. Tenders for Amritsar will be floated within a few days,” he said.
CryptoKitties has proven good for raising the public’s awareness of blockchain and cryptocurrency, and so a museum in Germany is creating an exhibit that will use the game to explain the technologies.
Dapper Labs, the owner of CryptoKitties, makes blockchain-based collectible cats. Now CryptoKitties has partnered with digital art firm Meural to unveil an art exhibit at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. The exhibit, “Bringing Blockchain to Life,” will showcase the inner workings of blockchain technology in real time.
CryptoKitties is not a cryptocurrency itself, but it is built to encourage people to learn how to use the alternative currencies such as Ethereum as well as blockchain, the decentralized and transparent ledger system. It became a sensation after it debuted in November 2017, but the activity has slowed as the craze over cryptocurrency has subsided. Fans have bid as much as $200,000 to buy rare kitties, and the company’s spinout firm, Dapper Labs, raised $12 million form venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures in March. Tens of millions of dollars in transactions have been conducted on the CryptoKitties marketplace to date.
But cryptocurrency and blockchain aren’t mainstream yet. Institutional investors have been wary of the fraud associated with various cryptocurrency schemes, and regulators have stepped in to monitor the market.
Above: CryptoKitties has handled tens of millions of dollars in transactions.
CryptoKitties is also lauded for pioneering a use case for blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrencies. Often referred to as “cryptocollectibles” or “non-fungible tokens,” the philosophy and technology behind CryptoKitties serves as a proof of concept for blockchain’s potential to reshape art and culture.
Like traditional works of art, each CryptoKitty is distinct, and has valuations for individual cats ranging from six cents to six-figures. In May, a CryptoKitty displayed at Christie’s Auction House in New York sold for $140,000, with proceeds funding the Foundation for Art & Blockchain.
Meural’s Digital Art Canvases will display CryptoKitties as digital artworks.
Mitt Romney blasted Hillary Clinton in a recent interview for refusing to label Boko Haram a terrorist organization while she was secretary of State. In April, the Islamist group abducted hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls.
The former Massachusetts governor went on to say that it’s hard to think of a nation that respects the U.S. more today than they did before the Obama administration.
Colmes believes there’s an effort on the right to intimidate Hillary Clinton so she won’t run for president in 2016.
Syndicated radio host Mike Gallagher thinks questions about Clinton are fair game. However, he doesn’t think Clinton will make a White House run.
The NADP monitors North America’s precipitation and atmosphere for a range of chemicals, and uses the data to determine trends in where pollution is concentrated and over what period of time.
Researchers sorted through nearly 70 years of the scientific literature to assess the state of knowledge of how air pollution directly affects the health, well-being, reproductive success and diversity of birds.
Researchers want to help improve models to better predict when ozone events will occur and thus, protect health.
The drumbeat calling scientists to share their work with the public is as loud as ever, and Tracey Holloway is happy to answer. Holloway leads a group of researchers drawn together as NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team.
The fleet of Earth-observing satellites deployed by NASA and other government agencies is providing an unprecedented look at what’s in the air we breathe.
UW-Madison researchers have teamed up with community leaders to analyze Green Lake, Wisconsin's deepest natural inland lake and a crucial habitat for lake trout and other cold water species.
A University of Wisconsin–Madison startup is helping Midwest cities remove pollutants from wastewater through a new process that will benefit local farmers, too.
Efforts to clean up the Madison lakes are being hampered by more asphalt, row crops and intense rainstorms and higher manure concentrations on the landscape, according to a new study from the Water Sustainability and Climate project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Concern about excess nitrogen getting into the state's waterways and drinking water is the impetus for a Nitrogen Science Summit March 28 on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.
The UW Arboretum’s Marion Dunn Pond will soon be home to a pilot project aimed at snatching the phosphorus and sediment from storm water before it surges into the wetlands around Lake Wingra.
Flying cars were always a pie-in-the-sky proposition, but hologram calls and many other bold tech ideas have hit snags.
The hope: Soon we'll be chatting with our friends in life-size, 3-D, holographic form -- beamed right into our living rooms! Even cell phones will pop out little avatar versions of the person at the other end of the line.
The reality: Video chat services like Skype and Apple's (AAPL) FaceTime are something of a replacement for, er, face time. But hologram calls remain relegated to sci-fi movies and experimental labs.
What's the deal? Until very recently, the technology required to create hologram calls was overly complicated and expensive. 3-D was still a pipe dream. Videos were too large to transmit quickly.
Now, all of those technologies exist in our living rooms -- and researchers are harnessing those advances in order to develop hologram technology. It's still experimental and expensive, and most consumer Internet speeds are still too slow to make 3-D videos stream reliably. But the tech is getting close.
The Human Media Lab at Canada's Queen's University is working on holographic chat called "TeleHuman," which uses Microsoft (MSFT) Kinect sensors, a 3-D projector, and cylindrical displays. RGBD Toolkit, which is backed by Carnegie Mellon, works with Kinect-DSLR camera combinations.
Graeme Paton, trading standards manager for Aberdeen City Council.
City council trading standards officers have issued a warning after the pensioner from the west of the city was scammed by rogue traders for gutter works.
The woman, who is in her late 70s, answered her door to a cold caller last weekend who asked if she wanted the gutters cleaned on her house for £60, which she agreed to.
But when the scammer went onto her roof he did not bother cleaning out the gutter – instead using his time to remove slates to trick the pensioner into agreeing to further work.
He told her she needed £7,500 of work carried out and accompanied her to a bank where she withdrew £4,000 “for materials” and gave it to him, saying he would return later that day for the rest of the money.
But a vigilant family member intervened and called the police, scaring off the conman.
Trading standards officers are now investigating the scam, and urged people in Aberdeen to be vigilant against cold-callers.
Trading standards manager Graeme Paton said: “This was a despicable action to a vulnerable pensioner who lives on her own being scammed out of thousands of pounds for work on her house which wasn’t needed.
“We’d always advise people to protect themselves from doorstep crime by if they’re not sure who is there, do not open the door.
Aberdeen Donside MSP Mark McDonald called the incident “an atrocious scam”.
He said: “Every community has vulnerable people in it so communities need to remain vigilant against these sort of scams.
To report suspicious activity to trading standards, call 03000 200 292, or e-mail [email protected]. Alternatively call the police on 101.
Two days ago, I told you about Presto, the fast-booting Linux OS that's just about perfect for old and/or slow PCs and laptop users who want zippy access to e-mail and the Web.
Yesterday, I showed you how to install Presto and get it running.
Today, let's turn our attention to using Presto and getting the most from the OS. For starters, anyone accustomed to Windows will notice that there's no taskbar. So, how do you switch between running programs (or just see what programs are running)?
You have two options. First, you can hold down the Alt key and tap Tab to cycle between open apps, Windows-style. Second, you can click the Windows List icon in the toolbar--it resides just above the green power button.