[HOUSTON.CBSLOCAL] Wagoner, Okla. — A newly-hired teacher was found intoxicated and not wearing any pants inside an Oklahoma high school classroom on her first day of work, according to Wagoner police.
Police arrested Lorie Hill after two Wagoner High School teachers found her intoxicated and without pants in an empty classroom she was claiming to be her own, KOKI-TV reports. Recently hired by Wagoner Public Schools, Hill was reporting for her first day on the job as all teachers were also returning for their first day back in school from summer break.
"They didn't know who she was, she was apparently new and was supposed to start yesterday," Wagoner Police Chief Bob Haley told KOKI.
Wagoner Police say she admitted to drinking and authorities found an empty cup in her vehicle that contained an odor of vodka, but there was not enough evidence to prove that she commuted to work under the influence. There were no credible witnesses at her home in Claremore to prove a DUI charge, so Hill was only arrested for public intoxication.
"When our officers interviewed her she did admit to having had some vodka yesterday morning before she came to school," said Haley.
On Monday, police officers found her in the principal's office, where the school staff had been detaining Hill since finding her without pants inside the classroom. Once officers arrived, they had to find a pair of shorts for her to wear and she confessed to drinking vodka in her car before the start of her first day as Wagoner teacher.
Some parents were baffled by the teacher's alleged first day debauchery.
"I don't know, as an adult, I just don't know how you can be a professional teacher and teaching young people, and then show up drunk," Frank Sandiford, a parent of a Wagoner student, told KOKI.
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Some parents were baffled by the teacher's alleged first day debauchery.
Cause everyone knows you need to wait till you get union protected tenure before you do this.
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On the other hand (being a former Special Ed. teacher for many years) there are the students who come to class completely stoned. It must be said in their defense that at least they keep their pants on. (Albeit some at kneecap length until informed otherwise).
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Some parents were baffled by the teacher's alleged first day debauchery.
Yikes... this is one case I'm not "Hot for Teacher," as the song goes. If only "some" partents are baffled when teach appears to work liquored up and pants down, more must be puzzled by school opening the first week of August -- right in the middle of the Oakie dirt farmer growing season.
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Beavis, CrazyFool...man up dimmit! She's F-150 friendly. You'd likely never have to buy a round, be cockblocked, or mow the lawn.
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When I was in high school the Dean of Students kept a bottle of booze in his office. And it must have been a BIG one too! Once I had to physically step back when he was talking to me because the booze-breath was so strong. It was bad.
I don't know how he kept his job. (Oh he was an a-hole too!) At least he didn't take of his pants (that I know of...).
[BBC] Even in death, a couple married for nearly 62 years were inseparable.
Don and Maxine Simpson from Bakersfield, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, died four hours apart on adjoining beds, holding hands during some of their final hours.
Melissa Sloan said her grandmother died first and when her body was removed from the room, her husband followed.
"All Don wanted was to be with his beautiful wife. He adored my grandmother, loved her to the end of the earth," she told KERO-TV.
He was 90 and she was 87, and they met at a bowling alley in Bakersfield in 1952, getting married in the same year.
When civil engineer Don worked for the US Army, the couple spent some time in Germany, where they adopted twin 18-month-old boys from an orphanage.
They returned to Bakersfield, where she worked as a nurse and he owned his own engineering firm.
They are survived by one son and five grandchildren.
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IMHO, a ticket to heaven all on it's own. What a legacy.
ATLANTA—As the second U.S. Ebola patient arrived in Atlanta on Tuesday, health authorities in Liberia raised questions about how the woman and an American doctor were given an experimental U.S. treatment unavailable to the hundreds of Africans sickened by the deadly virus.
Of course it does. Anyone clear on the concepts of "limited supply", "experimental", "investigational" and "maybe ineffective"?
While still in Liberia, both Nancy Writebol, who was working at an Ebola center for a Christian charity, and Kent Brantly, a physician there, received an experimental drug known as ZMapp. The drug's safety hasn't been tested in humans, and experts said it is too soon to know if it is effective.
For the drug to be used in Liberia, it would have to be approved by the country's Ministry of Health Ethical Committee, said Bernice Dahn, Liberia's chief medical officer. Dr. Dahn said she wasn't aware of the committee approving any experimental Ebola treatment, though she also wasn't aware of any being disapproved. Liberia's assistant health minister, Tolbert Nyenswah, didn't know of any approval. Liberia's presidency also wasn't aware, said Information Minister Lewis Brown.
Now, Dr. Nyenswah said, officials have been beset with requests from dying patients and their relatives for the same treatment.
"This is something that has made our job most difficult," Dr. Nyenswah said. "The population here is asking: 'You said there was no cure for Ebola, but the Americans are curing it?'"
Maybe. Suckers that we are, if we do cure it we'll spread the cure around, perhaps for free...
Liberian officials were set to meet Wednesday with the World Health Organization to see about getting the experimental drug rushed into use for other patients, said Dr. Nyenswah.
Details of how ZMapp was administered to the patients in Liberia—and who authorized its use—remained sketchy Tuesday. Bruce Johnson, president of SIM USA, the Charlotte, N.C.-based charity with which Ms. Writebol, 59, and her husband, David, went to Africa, said at a news conference Tuesday that the decision to use the drug was left to the patients, their families and their doctors.
An Obama administration official said Tuesday that the treatment was arranged by Samaritan's Purse, a humanitarian organization that sponsored Dr. Brantly in Liberia. The National Institutes of Health provided Samaritan's Purse with contacts at the company developing this treatment, the official said.
"The NIH did not procure, transport, approve or administer the experimental treatments in Liberia," the official said.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the FDA can provide access to experimental treatments by a mechanism known as an emergency investigational new drug application, and that the agency's approval is required before an experimental drug can be given in the U.S.
Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. of San Diego, which developed ZMapp, describes the drug as a cocktail of three "humanized" monoclonal antibodies that are manufactured using tobacco plants. A monoclonal antibody is a laboratory-engineered version of natural antibodies found in humans and animals that help combat disease. Monoclonal antibodies are typically injected or infused; some already on the market treat diseases ranging from cancer to rheumatoid arthritis.
ZMapp was derived from mouse cells that were "humanized," or infused with human components, to work in people, said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The cocktail comprises components of two older experimental drugs: MB-003, which was developed by Mapp; and ZMab, developed by Defyrus Inc. of Toronto and the Public Health Agency of Canada. MB-003 showed promise in treating monkeys infected with Ebola, according to a study published last year in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
ZMapp is made by infecting tobacco plants with certain proteins, growing them in the plants, then extracting and purifying the proteins, according to David Howard, spokesman for tobacco-products maker Reynolds American Inc. A Reynolds unit, Kentucky BioProcessing LLC, has a contract to make the drug in Owensboro, Ky., Mr. Howard said.
Kentucky BioProcessing is working with Mapp and government agencies to increase production of ZMapp, he said. In addition, the company complied with a request from Emory University, at whose hospital the two patients are being treated, and Samaritan's Purse to provide a limited amount of ZMapp to Emory, said Mr. Howard. He declined to say how much was provided. An Emory spokeswoman wouldn't confirm the request.
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Now bear in mind, the reason that there had been no trials yet during the ongoing outbreak was because the lab didn't want to be accused of 'experimenting on locals'. So foreign med workers were the only ones to test on.
Sounds like a job for Eric Holder; I'm sure he can find us a racist in here somewhere.
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Waiting for the anti-tobacco activists to start moaning & complaining about the involvement of Reynolds in this whole life-saving effort. Then NIMBYists from KY will advocate zoning against growing antibodies to Ebola in their neighborhoods. Then will come demonstrations by naked advocates from PETP - People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants.
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Don't the Liberians understand experimental drugs can make your pee-pee fall off?
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ZMapp is made by infecting tobacco plants with certain proteins, growing them in the plants, then extracting and purifying the proteins, according to David Howard, spokesman for tobacco-products maker Reynolds American Inc. A Reynolds unit, Kentucky BioProcessing LLC, has a contract to make the drug in Owensboro, Ky., Mr. Howard said
Refuse to use these GMO's. Monsanto! Reynolds!
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It's worse than that, Frank. This experimental drug is the product of Western Civilization, Capitalism, the Evil Pharma industry, and the White Man. It's a vast conspiracy. Just Say NO to Anti-Ebola Drugs!
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Also, even if it saves an Ebola victim who is 24-72 hours from dying, if that person develops cancer in 30-40 years, the lawyers will be all over it.
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Nigerian public sector physicians have been on strike since early July. Reuters today reported "With doctors on strike, Lagos health commissioner Jide Idris said volunteers were urgently needed to track 70 people who came into contact with Sawyer. Only 27 have so far been traced."
Nigerian auhorities giving conflicting stories about how the fatal case of Patrick Sawyer was handled last month. In announcing Sawyer's death, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu maintained late last month that Nigerian officials had been vigilant in isolating him.
"It was right there (at the airport) that the problem was noticed because we have maintained our surveillance," he told reporters. "And immediately, he went into the custody of the port health services of the federal ministry of health so there was no time for him to mingle in Lagos. He has not been in touch with any other person again since we took him from the airport."
Chukwu's comments were at odds with remarks made Tuesday by the Lagos state health commissioner, who said doctors did not suspect Ebola immediately and identified Sawyer as a possible case only after he had been hospitalized for about a day.
More from Roooters: Authorities said on Wednesday that a Nigerian nurse who had treated Patrick Sawyer had also died of Ebola, and five other people were being treated in an isolation ward in Lagos, Africa's largest city.
The national health minister on Wednesday said special tents would be used to establish isolation wards in all of Nigeria's states. Authorities were setting up an emergency center in Lagos to deal with Ebola and expected the facility to be "fully functional" by Thursday, he said.
The CDC has gone on record as advising travelers to Nigeria: "Avoid hospitals where Ebola patients are being treated. The US Embassy or consulate is often able to provide advice on facilities that are suitable for your needs."
This afternoon, a tweet from "@CDCEmergency Ops Center moved to Level 1 response to #EbolaOutbreak given the extension to Nigeria & potential to affect many lives." CDC will reassign personnel from other tasks as part of its scaled-up response to this outbreak.
[DAWN] Saudi men have been prohibited from marrying women from Pakistain, Bangladesh, Chad and Myanmar, says a report in Makkah daily quoting Makkah Police Director Maj Gen Assaf Al-Qurashi.
According to unofficial figures, there are about 500,000 women from these four countries currently residing in the kingdom.
In a move apparently aimed at discouraging Saudi men from marrying foreigners, additional formalities have been placed before issuing the permission for marriage with foreigners. Saudi men wishing to marry foreigners now face tougher regulations.
Those wanting to marry foreign women should first obtain the consent of the government and submit marriage applications through official channels, Maj Gen Qurashi was quoted as saying.
The official said applicants should be over 25 and attach identification documents signed by the local district mayor as well as all other identity papers, including a copy of his family card. "If the applicant is already married, he should attach a report from a hospital proving that his wife is either disabled, suffering from a chronic disease or is sterile," he said.
Maj Gen Qurashi said divorced men would not be allowed to apply within six months of their divorce.
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I spent two years in Riyadh. One of my colleagues, Khalid, fell for a Filipina. His family confronted him saying he should marry his first cousin instead, as marrying outside the family would be "disgusting". Their children would be "contaminated" and only "110 volt and not 220 volts" - which reflects the curious electricity supply system. Problem was he couldn't remember what his cousin looked like since girls cover their faces at puberty, and didn't want to marry if she was unappealing. His sisters arranged a private viewing, and seeing his cousin was not too ugly they married. Tribalism is alive and well in KSA.
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If Soddies ever accomplished anything, anything at all in the fields of math, science, sports, arts, philanthropy...anything at all...then at least they would have something they could use as an excuse, however flimsy, for being such racists.
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#1 His family confronted him saying he should marry his first cousin instead, as marrying outside the family would be "disgusting". Their children would be "contaminated" and only "110 volt and not 220 volts"
Facinating (to employ a Spockism). Mooselimbs seem to get everything exactly backwards.
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Problem was he couldn't remember what his cousin looked like since girls cover their faces at puberty, and didn't want to marry if she was unappealing. His sisters arranged a private viewing, and seeing his cousin was not too ugly they married.
As the saying goes "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"....
[ABC.NET.AU] London mayor Boris Johnson has indicated that he will stand for election to the House of Commons next year, a move that could eventually position him as a successor to prime minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
The comments from Mr Johnson, known for his messy shock of blond hair and clownish soundbites, end months of speculation about whether he would return to national politics.
Some in Mr Cameron's Conservative Party see Mr Johnson as a popular figure with a high profile who could be a successful future leader if he were to win a seat at May's general election.
"In all probability I will try to find somewhere to stand in 2015," Mr Johnson said following a speech in London.
But Mr Johnson, 50, also said he intended to serve out his full term as London's mayor, which does not end until 2016. He has always played down his chances of eventually becoming prime minister, saying they were about as good as those "of finding Elvis on Mars or my being reincarnated as an olive".
Mr Cameron's Conservatives, currently senior partners in a coalition government, face a tough fight to win next year's election. A YouGov/Sun poll out on Wednesday put the Conservatives on 33 per cent, the main opposition Labour on 38 per cent, junior coalition partners the Liberal Democrats on 8 per cent and the anti-EU UK Independence Party on 12 per cent.
Mr Johnson and Mr Cameron are old rivals who attended the elite Eton College and Oxford University together.
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[Iran Press TV] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has ordered government agencies to restrict agricultural imports from countries that imposed sanctions on Moscow.
In a Wednesday decree by the Kremlin, Putin ordered the measures to be implemented for one year.
The Kremlin said in a statement that Putin's executive decree "either bans or limits... the import into the Russian Federation of certain kinds of agricultural products, raw materials and food originating from countries that have decided to adopt economic sanctions against Russian entities and (or) individuals."
No specific country or product is named in the document, but it instructs government departments to come up with a list of products subject to the order.
The Itar-Tass news agency said that Russia will hold talks with Ecuador, Brazil, Chile and Argentina on increasing food imports.
Moscow also halted imports of beef products from Romania and live animals Bulgaria and from parts of Greece and Italia. Russia also banned Polish agricultural imports on health grounds last week.
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Empty grocery store shelves? He really is reverting to the former Soviet model.
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The new Moscow Diet: Hummus(Iran), grapes(Chile), canned corned beef(Argentina), and molasses(Cuba). Throw in bananas from Venezuela and some melamine laden milk from China.
Sounds yummy.
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It makes you wonder how many ration boxes a French built Mistral aircraft carrier comes with.
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No more cheese with that whine
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There is a low possibility of waging a war in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said on Aug. 6, News-Armenia reported.
"The incidents can turn into local clashes," Ohanian said at a press conference on Aug. 6. "But the likelihood of a large-scale war is low. In any case, we must be ready."
Armenian armed forces launched a diversion on the night of July 31-August 1, when reconnaissance and sabotage groups tried to cross the contact line through the territories of the Aghdam and Terter regions. Azerbaijan managed to locate the group and the sabotage attempt was prevented.
During the last four days, Azerbaijani positions have been constantly under attack, and 13 servicemen have been killed, several more were wounded. The Armenian side suffered more losses while trying to hide this fact from the public.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the U.S. are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
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[MINNESOTA.CBSLOCAL] MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — People eating at a Stillwater restaurant Tuesday noticed a new fee added to their bill. Owners of the Oasis Cafe are charging a 35 cent minimum wage fee. They say it's to offset the cost of an increased minimum wage for tipped employees.
Customers have mixed reviews about the new fee.
For some, the thought of charging customers this fee sent them to social media to vent.
"You're essentially blaming customers for the increase when you charge for it the way you do," one customer wrote on Facebook.
Another said: "It's Oasis way of blaming our government for trying to set a fair living wage. It is political grandstanding."
Oasis owners fired back on Facebook, saying: "Thumbing my nose at the law change, you're right. Part of my thinking was to shine a light on this matter, which I truly believe is in the best interest of both my business and employees."
Many eating at Oasis on Tuesday said it's not a big deal to pay a little extra to keep a small business afloat.
"I don't take issue with it really," Jordan Felt said.
The Oasis management says they estimate the pay increase is costing them more than $10,000 a year.
People we spoke with say they support the businesses effort to keep the employees they have working.
"For a small business, I think that's an OK thing, but if you are a larger company and you have the money and you're just greedy and you don't want to pay it yourself, then that's a whole another story," Markie Babcock said.
The owners say if Minnesota would pass a tip credit like 43 other states have done none of this would be necessary.
The owners were on vacation Tuesday but say they are looking forward to coming home to debate this hot button issue.
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[LATIMES] Ukrainian government forces close in on pro-Russia separatists' final strongholds, Western security strategists have sounded the alarm that Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... may be preparing to invade eastern Ukraine to rescue the embattled insurgents. "Is beink fraternal Russian forces arriving at request of East German Hungarian Czechoslovakian Afghan Ukrainian pipples!"
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday added his voice to the chorus of warnings that a massive Russian troop buildup on the border with Ukraine may be more than Kremlin saber-rattling.
"It's a reality, of course it is," Hagel said during a visit to the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. "When you see the buildup of these troops, the sophistication and training of these troops, the heavy military equipment that's being put on the border, of course it's a reality and it's a possibility."
On Tuesday, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said the movement of Russian troops, tanks, armored vehicles and war planes to regions bordering the areas where separatists are fighting off Ukrainian troops signaled a substantial heightening of tensions and risk of invasion.
"You do such things either to exert pressure or to enter," Sikorski said, citing indications that Russian forces might be deployed across the border under the pretext of providing humanitarian aid to the largely Russian-speaking population in the embattled Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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I'd currently put the odds at about 40% of T72 showers along the Donetsk, less so in Trans Nitria.
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Let it go, Vlad. This is bad PR in the West and bad for business everywhere. You got Crimea. Settle for that. If Ruskies in eastern Ukraine aren't happy there is always plenty of room in Siberia.
[ARABNEWS] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... on Wednesday faced accusations of racism days before he stands in presidential elections after saying in a television interview that it was ugly to be called an Armenian.
During a live interview on the private NTV channel late Tuesday, Erdogan complained that the opposition was carrying out a smear campaign against him by claiming that he was from another ethnic origin.
"They called me a Georgian. Pardon me for saying this, but they said even uglier things: They called me an Armenian!" Erdogan said.
"As far as I have learned from my father and grandfather, I am a Turk," he added.
His comment that it was ugly to be called an Armenian drew anger on social media, further inflaming tensions days ahead of Sunday's presidential election where Erdogan is hot favorite to become head of state.
"Excuse me, but please go and become the president of another country," wrote prominent Turkish-Armenian columnist Hayko Bagdat in an angry response to Erdogan.
Melda Onur, politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP), asked: "Is there any ethnic group who could escape Erdogan's hate speech?"
Even a senior politician from the ultra right-wing Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) — usually not a natural friend of Turkey's Armenians — came to their defense. "We have news for Erdogan from the 21th century: Being an Armenian is not a crime, a fault, an ugly, an embarassing or a sinful thing ... But his words amount to hate crime according to our laws," Tugrul Turkes said in a written statement.
Critics accused Erdogan of playing the sectarian and the ethnic card in the run-up to the presidential elections.
"Is it ugly to be an Armenian or is it a shame? Please explain now!" demanded Nevsin Mengu, an anchorwoman at the private CNN-Turk television.
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[DAWN] KARAK: Local Learned Elders of Islam and elders 'banned' here on Tuesday movement of young women outside their homes without the company of male relatives and said the violators would be fined and socially boycotted.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Gurguri Islahi Tanzeem chaired by its former president Nasrullah Khan. Local Learned Elders of Islam, elders and members of the committee were in attendance.
The participants expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over increasing drug addiction among youth and said that there would be complete ban on sale of drugs in the area. The meeting warned the narcos to quit the illegal business or face dire consequences.
On the occasion, two drug sellers decided to quit the illegal and unethical business. The participants extended support to the committee's struggle for drug-free society.
The meeting also decided that in case of theft in the area the committee would suggest severe punishment and fine for thieves. It was also decided that the affected family would be compensated by the relatives of thieves.
The participants demanded of the police and district administration to extend support to the committee for implementing its decisions.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: In a tragic incident, a frustrated father killed three daughters and his wife before committing suicide in Chaman, Pakistain's bordering town with Afghanistan on Wednesday night, a security official said.
Muhammad Younas, a levies official told Dawn.com via telephone that a man identified as Haji Abdul Wali killed three daughters and his wife as result of domestic problem in Boghra area of Chaman.
"The accused later did away with himself," Younas said.
Two other women also suffered bullet wounds as result of firing and were shifted to Civil Hospital Chaman for medical treatment.
The Levies official stated that the ages of two girls were between four and six years and the elder one's age was 22. The man also killed his wife after opening an indiscriminate fire on his daughters.
Levies and police personnel reached the house and shifted the dead bodies to hospital.
The tragic incident worried the entire Chaman city and a large number of people gathered outside the house.
"The incident was the result of a domestic problem," Muhammad Younas said.
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[DAWN] LARKANA: Larkana district and sessions judge Syed Irshad Ali Shah on Tuesday ordered the SHO of the Waleed cop shoppe to register the FIR relating to the July 1 escape of three women from Darul Aman as desired by the complainant.
The judge allowed complainant Ghulam Qadir Chandio to lodge the FIR with the cop shoppe.
In his application filed under Section 22-A of the Criminal Procedure Code in the court, Mr Chandio stated that his sister, Nooran Chandio, was actually kidnapped. He claimed that the police were refusing to register his FIR.
Advocate Sajid Mahesar, who pleaded the case, said that the judge ordered the police to register the complainant's FIR against the former Darul Aman head, Mukhtiar Khatoon, two coppers, Allah Bukhsh Brohi and Atta Mohammed Brohi and other coppers and private persons for their involvement in the incident.
The counsel said in the FIR, the names of all these suspects would be mentioned and it would be lodged under sections 365-B (kidnapping of women) and 371-A (selling for prostitution) of the Pakistain Penal Code.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... the police are still clueless about the fate of the three inmates.
Armed clash
An armed clash between two rival groups of the Metla clan left five persons injured on Tuesday in Metla village on the Larkana-Naudero road.
The injured were identified as Ataf Metlo, Oshaq, Wajid, Ms Sakina and Rubina.
They were admitted to the Chandka Medical College Hospital. The rivals had shot it out over the ownership of 20 acres of land, police said.
Police and Rangers reached the spot and forced them to stop the firing. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... a group of women led by Ms Mumtaz Khatoon, Ms Zamiran and Ms Rashida blocked the Larkana-Naudero road and demanded that the police arrest the attackers.
The situation was so tense in the area that police were patrolling in an armoured personnel carrier.
Two coppers held
Police have placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... two coppers and a civilian red-handed while stealing oil from a Parco pipeline passing near Fatehpur village within the remit of the Dhamraho cop shoppe on Tuesday.
A tractor and its trolley along with 15 big cans filled with oil had also been confiscated, said Dhamraho cop shoppe SHO Akhtiar Jagirani while talking to Dawn on Tuesday.
On the complaint of vigilance officer Parco, retired Major Asif Zia, an FIR was registered with the cop shoppe against police constables Ghulam Haidar Shar, Dilshad Zangijo and Ramzan Kango.
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[IsraelTimes] An Israeli company has put out a game that is not just for fun — it's meant to prevent recurrence of the giant hack that a netted Russian gang 1.2 billion usernames and passwords in the "Heartbleed" fiasco. If it wasn't obvious before, this backs up the insistence of Checkmarx that it's time for attention to Internet security to move to the front seat.
If the UN's statistics are correct, that 40% of the world's 7.1 billion people use the Internet, then Russian hackers own one out of every three personal logins for social media sites, email, banking sites, and who knows what else, according to reports. How the Russian hackers got access to more than 1 billion usernames and passwords from hundreds of thousands of websites is a mystery — the company that unveiled the information, Hold Security, isn't saying — but it could very well be connected to the enormous multi-year security foul-up that affected the Internet's main security protocol, OpenSSL.
That security hole, which was apparently around for years before anyone noticed, is believed to have affected nearly one out of every five secure web servers — the ones that are supposed to be safe for submitting credit card information. According to some experts, Heartbleed is perhaps the biggest and worst security breach ever to hit the Internet. Why nobody noticed isn't clear, according to Maty Siman, CTO and founder of Israeli security company Checkmarx, but it could be connected to the "back seat" security has often taken for programmers.
It's a problem Checkmarx has been concerned with for some time now — and to improve programmers' grasp of security issues, Checkmarx this week released the "Game of Hacks," an online contest programmers can play against or computer — or each other — to help them identify the dumb mistakes programmers often make that opens the door to web thieves, who are able to easily penetrate site defenses and grab whatever data they want.
Heartbleed was the name given to a bug that was discovered in early April in the Internet's Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, the open-source OpenSSL cryptography library. The bug, according to experts, may have been around for years.
Heartbleed was avoidable in many cases. An observant programmer, said Siman, would have avoided writing the code that enabled hackers to use the Heartbleed protocol to invade servers. "Heartbleed is a bug in the basic implementation of open-source OpenSSL. Many security problems, like Heartbleed, can be traced to the original code written by programmers — in which they added features without checking the security ramifications," said Siman.
That's where Game of Hacks comes in. The game, available for desktop, tablet and mobile, presents the developer with vulnerable pieces of code and challenges them to identify the application layer vulnerability as quickly as possible. It's designed for both beginning and advanced programmers, covering hacker "top 10 favorite" vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, Log Forgery, Path traversal, Parameter Tampering, and many other esoteric terms that make the eyes of ordinary people glaze over, but cause dollar signs to flash in hackers' eyes.
Checkmarx announced the game this week at the annual Blackhat cyber-security convention in Las Vegas, which is incidentally where the Russian hack breach was announced — and that turned into the talk of the town. According to Held, the hackers are using the purloined usernames and passwords mostly to send spam to social network and e-mail accounts — but no one at this time really knows the extent of the damage, and how many passwords the hackers have stolen for banking, insurance, government, and infrastructure sites.
Shockingly, said Asaph Schulman, VP of marketing of Checkmarx, the tactics used by hackers are similar, no matter what the exploit — and those tactics can be stopped. "We've been seeing a rise in hackers successfully exploiting vulnerabilities in applications' codes — vulnerabilities that often exist from the early development stage of the software and remain undetected until it's too late. We repeatedly hear security managers concerned about the secure coding knowledge of their development teams and looking to provide more training. Game of Hacks was designed to sharpen developers' security acumen in a fun and interactive way so many of the most common security vulnerabilities can be avoided in the first place."
The first step to stopping a hacker is thinking like one, said Siman — and that means enabling programmers to see what a hacker sees from a vulnerability point of view. That is what Game of Hacks is all about. "Checkmarx is committed to bridging the gap between app developers' coding abilities and their security literacy," said Siman. "Thinking like a hacker can ensure developers protect their applications from the most likely exploits. As mobile and web applications grow in popularity, protecting consumer information before it is put at risk is more important than ever."
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