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Burnett didn't steal the passwords in question, of course, but they're now easily accessible to anyone and everyone — here's how you can quickly and easily find out if you are affected.
An Alabama cop is under investigation after allegedly using excessive force while handcuffing a man visiting from India who has since been diagnosed as partly paralyzed.
The altercation occurred last Friday when Sureshbhai Patel, a 57-year-old Indian citizen from the small town of Pij, was approached by an officer of the Madison Police Department while outside his own son's home in an affluent up-and-coming community in northern Alabama.
Police say they were responding to calls concerning a suspicious person in the neighborhood when they confronted Patel, according to a statement provided to the AL.com news portal, and learned he did not speak English.
According to local news network WHNT, Patel's son said his dad told the officers: "No English. Indian. Walking," then pointed to the family home he had been staying in for less than two weeks.
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Police say they were responding to calls concerning a suspicious person in the neighborhood when they confronted Patel, according to a statement provided to the AL.com news portal, and learned he did not speak English.
According to local news network WHNT, Patel's son said his dad told the officers: "No English. Indian. Walking," then pointed to the family home he had been staying in for less than two weeks.
Comment: Meanwhile, an Alabama policeman has been charged with assault:
Sureshbhai Patel, 57, sued the city and two officers in a civil rights complaint filed on Thursday, alleging race factored into his treatment, his attorney said. The FBI said it was also investigating.
Police officials in Madison, Alabama, apologized to Patel and his family at a news conference on Thursday afternoon. They said one of the officers involved in the incident last Friday had been arrested on an assault charge, and officials had recommended he be fired.
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Meanwhile, Hicks' social media posts show that he was an ardent atheist who equally mocked Muslims and Christians, an avid defender of the Constitution's separation of church and state, and a gun nut who posted pictures of his revolver. The Associated Press quoted neighbors who say "he always seemed angry and frequently confronted his neighbors" and "his ex-wife said he was obsessed with the shooting rampage movie Falling Down" and showed "no compassion at all."
The Wall Street Journal further reported that the father of two victims, who were sisters, "said this man was hateful. He was picking fights, knocking on their door." The Journal also said Hicks obsessively called tow truck companies to have his neighbors' cars towed, and once even met tow truck drivers in the street waving a gun.
Comment: Very surprising statistics which goes to show how mainstream media misrepresents the real threats to our society.
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A billboard with a message about Ebola is seen on a street in Conakry, Guinea October 26, 2014.
A billboard with a message about Ebola is seen on a street in Conakry, Guinea October 26, 2014.
Red Cross teams in Guinea have been attacked on average 10 times a month over the past year, the organisation said this week, warning that the violence was hampering efforts to contain the disease.
During the incident on Friday in the town of Faranah, around 400 km (250 miles) east of the capital Conakry, angry residents attacked an Ebola transit centre and set ablaze a vehicle belonging to medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.
A Red Cross burial team was also targeted and forced to flee, said Fodé Tass Sylla, spokesman for the government campaign against the disease.
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The fire broke out in a vacant building on the Quba Islamic Institute campus in southeast Houston early Friday morning. Heavy smoke filled the air as flames flared from the roof.
Comment: Hopefully this was just an accident. We don't need anymore hate crimes. Islamophobia has gone way too far already.
An image posted to Chinese social media site Weibo allegedly shows a "ranking farm" of racks of iPhones that are used to manipulate ratings and reviews of apps in the App Store.
The image shows a woman sat in front of a rack of over 50 iPhone 5Cs linked together in a tangled mess of cabling. There appear to be more iPhones surrounding her, with the App Store running on their screens.
Although the photos cannot be verified, The Verge reports that it is easy to find adverts for such services on Chinese e-commerce sites, leading to an indication that this is genuine.
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The photo shows a Chinese employee sitting in front of about 100 iPhones and apparently manipulating app store rankings.
The photo shows a Chinese employee sitting in front of about 100 iPhones and apparently manipulating app store rankings.
Although the photos cannot be verified, The Verge reports that it is easy to find adverts for such services on Chinese e-commerce sites, leading to an indication that this is genuine.
Caroline Callaway is suing the city of Austin, Travis County, Austin police officers, county sheriff's officers, Pro-touch Nurses and one of its employees, alleging unlawful search and seizure, excessive force, assault and battery, negligence and medical malpractice, Court House News reports.
The scene painted by the lawsuit reads like the horror stories we hear from Guantanamo Bay, yet it took place here in Texas- over a would-be misdemeanor.
The woman, who suffers from an anxiety disorder that she uses prescription medications to manage, was arrested by Officer Patrick Oborski after refusing to submit to a breathalyzer test.
Callaway claims that upon arriving at the Travis County Jail she was taken into a small padded room and strapped into a chair with her legs, wrists, and shoulders restrained; all while surrounded by police officers. The situation caused the woman to tremble with fear, which she says prompted the officers to place a "protective hood" over her head. The bag covered her eyes, nose, and mouth and made it difficult for Callaway to breathe.
Comment: The video is extremely disturbing. How could such a clear-cut constitutional violation be 'legal'? Is it reasonable to strap someone down, forcefully take their blood, potentially injure and traumatize them over a misdemeanor?
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On the bright side, the study also found that improving management practices could save lives.
The Harvard and Stanford Business School working paper published in the Management Science journal looks at why Americans spend $180 billion every year on healthcare yet experience average or subpar health outcomes compared to the rest of the world.
The study combined common job stressors - including layoffs and unemployment, lack of health insurance, shift work, long working hours, job insecurity, low organizational justice - with management choices such as long hours, lack of control, job insecurity and perceptions of unfairness in the workplace.
Job stress 'making staff unhealthy' http://t.co/hyN7d0OZKA and will only get worse if Govt insist on low paid, insecure, poor quality workCo-author Professor Joel Goh of Harvard Business School told Working Knowledge, "These factors affect health in two ways. They are both inherently stressful on the body, and also lead to unhealthy behaviors like alcoholism and overeating."
— I'm a JSA claimant (@imajsaclaimant) February 12, 2015
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The Wyoming House of Representatives passed the bill on Thursday, moves on to Senate.
The Wyoming House of Representatives passed the bill on Thursday, moves on to Senate.
The Wyoming House of Representatives narrowly passed the bill, called Senate File 13, which would call up firing squads to carry out executions in the event lethal injection drugs weren't available, according to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
Wyoming's Senate had a chance to pass the bill on Thursday but could not get enough votes for concurrence on an amendment adopted in the state House. The Senate will try again on Tuesday and if the bill is approved it will go to the governor's desk to be signed into law.
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The officer arrived in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday after the jury issued a six counts indictment against him. The charge included second-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault and criminally negligent homicide, a misdemeanor count of reckless endangerment and two counts of official misconduct. The defendant faces up to 15 years of imprisonment if found guilty.
Here is the full list of charges Liang faces in the death of Akai Gurley. Story soon via@Brooklyn_Paper pic.twitter.com/e3tcRL6uWWPeter Liang pleaded not guilty to all the indictments. He has not testified before the jury yet.
— Noah Hurowitz (@NoahHurowitz) 11 февраля 2015
"This is the first step in justice," Kimberly Ballinger, Gurley's child's mother, said. "Now all we need is a conviction, which I have faith that we will get."
Comment: There doesn't seem to be any reason given for why the officer even had his weapon in hand. The innocent man was not a threat, yet not only was he killed in cold-blood, but the officers didn't even call for help immediately which if it were an accident would be the very first thing, aside from providing to aid to the victim, that they would do. Police too often feel like they can shoot first and cover up later. They need to start paying for their police state actions. A guilty verdict in this case would be a step in that direction.
Comment: Let's hope that this leak will serve as a wake-up call to users about internet security.