Half Girlfriend movie review by audience: Live updates
Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor-starrer Half Girlfriend has been receiving positive response from the audience. The audience review suggests that it is a good movie with a balanced mix of romance and emotion.
Directed by Mohit Suri, Half Girlfriend is an official adaptation of Chetan Bhagat's novel by the same name. Arjun as Madhav Jha plays the character of a guy from Bihar, who is pretty good looking but a big time loser when it comes to speaking in English.
On the other side, Shraddha as Riya Somani is a smart city girl and belongs to a well-to-do family. The story of Half Girlfriend revolves around these two characters, who despite being quite different, fall in love with each other. However, their love story faces a lot of hurdles due to the differences and takes a tragic turn.
The audience opine that Arjun and Shraddha as a simple desi boy and a fragile rich girl respectively did full justice to their roles. Many have also praised director Mohit for the film's narration. Some have even said that Half Girlfriend is the best romantic movie of the year so far.
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Car jumps curb, hits pedestrians in Times Square
DEVELOPING – One person was in custody and at least one person was reportedly dead after a speeding car jumped a curb and injured several people in New York's Times Square on Thursday afternoon.
Reuters reported 10 others were injured in the incident.
An NYPD source confirmed to Fox News that an unnamed individual had been taken into custody in the incident.
Several buildings in the area were reportedly on lockdown as police swarmed the busy intersection, which is heavily populated with tourists.
Authorities have not yet said if the car was intentionally driven into a crowd or if the incident was accidental in nature.
A maroon sedan could be seen in multiple photos upended at the corner of 45th Street and Broadway.
Fox News' Julie Banderas contributed to this report.
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Seth Rich, killed DNC staffer, emailed WikiLeaks?
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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Rod Wheeler, a former homicide detective with the Washington, D.C., force — whose face was made famous while serving as a television pundit during the O.J. Simpson trial — offered up some interesting news about the recently murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich that went like this: He was “absolutely” emailing WikiLeaks.
Ruh-roh. That’s an interesting tidbit, don’t you think? Not sure if this is tin hat territory or not, but the connection is curious, at least on the surface.
Rich was shot and killed last year in what police chalked up to a likely robbery. But his death coincided with a WikiLeaks dump of DNC emails — emails that proved most embarrassing and damaging to some of the party’s leading politicos, including Hillary Clinton.
Wheeler, who was hired as a private investigator by Rich’s family to get answers into his death, said during an ET broadcast on local WTTG to show host Marina Marraco that he’s had difficulty dealing with local police and the FBI during his investigation — that officials haven’t been exactly forthcoming with the evidence. He also suggested Rich’s computer could prove a mine field of information.
“[Neither] the police department nor the FBI have been forthcoming,” Wheeler said on the show, Breitbart reported. “They haven’t been cooperating at all. I believe that the answer to solving his death lies on that computer, which I believe is either at the police department or at the FBI. I have been told both.”
Wheeler then said a source he has at the police department suggested the computer most likely indicates Rich was emailing WikiLeaks.
And on that count, here’s what he said: “I have a source inside the police department that has looked at me straight in the eye and said, ‘Rod, we were told to stand down on this case and I can’t share any information with you.’ Now that’s highly unusual for a murder investigation, especially from a police department. Again, I don’t think it comes from the chief’s office, but I do believe there is a correlation between the mayor’s office and the DNC and that is the information that’s going to come out.”
Interesting, at the least, right?
And there’s this, from Fox 5: “When we askedWheeler if his sources have told him there is information that links Rich to WikiLeaks, he said, ‘Absolutely. yeah. That’s confirmed.’ “
Kulbhushan Jadhav Case Live: Pak Says India Used World Court For 'Political Theatre'
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India has not approached the international court on any case related to Pakistan since 1971. The two countries last faced each other at the top UN court when the Indian Air Force shot down Pakistan's maritime aircraft Atlantique in the Kutch region in 1999. While Pakistan sought damages worth $60 million from India, a 16-judge bench voted 14-2 in India's favour after a four-day hearing.
Here are the live updates of the hearing at the International Court of Justice over the Kulbhushan Jadhav case:
Confession Was Obtained After India Sought Access: Pakistan
- We sought help with provision of evidence, but only got deafening silence
- The confession video was aired. it was plainly incorrect that video was aired after access was sought
- Consular access request would be considered in the light of response to legal assistance request
- Jadhav not tried in some Kangaroo court
- It is not acceptable to invoke jurisdiction of International Court of Justice
We will invite the court to dismiss application: Pakistan's counsel
- There is no urgency in the matter
- Jurisdiction under Vienna convention is limited by 2008 agreement
- India is urging court to not permit oral hearing. There are flaws in India's approach
- There were four stages of the trial. Pakistan made it clear that Jadhav wasn't eligible for consular access
- India has been using media to misinterpret Jadhav case
- Court not given material that was given to India on January 23 2017. It had 13 names that Jadhav had dislcosed
- Cover letter sought assistance of Indian authorities to bank account details
Pakistan wishes to live in peace with neighbours
- We have no desire to waste court's time and resources to score political parties
- Indian media reported International Court of Justice's letter as a 'stay' which it is not. This shows maneuvering
Viewers can decide if Jadhav is confessing voluntarily
- Pakistan gives 150 days after conviction
- There is no potential for writ petition of high court to be invoked
- Individuals have got relief from Pakistan courts in the past
India Used World Court For Political Theatre: Pakistan
India is unwiiling to explain Jadhav's passport
It is important for court to hear Kulbhushan Jadhav's confession
Won't be cowed down by terrorism
India's silence is telling. They could and should have responded to letter from Pakistan seeking their assistance
Pakistan responds to India's charges at UN court in Kulbhushan Jadhav's case
Indian Lawyer Harish Salve Takes The Floor At The International Court Of Justice
Kulbhushan Jadhav Case Live: Pak Says India Used World Court For 'Political Theatre'
Kulbhushan Jadhav Case Live: Hearing Begins At International Court Of Justice
India has not approached the international court on any case related to Pakistan since 1971. The two countries last faced each other at the top UN court when the Indian Air Force shot down Pakistan's maritime aircraft Atlantique in the Kutch region in 1999. While Pakistan sought damages worth $60 million from India, a 16-judge bench voted 14-2 in India's favour after a four-day hearing.
Here are the live updates of the hearing at the International Court of Justice over the Kulbhushan Jadhav case:
May 15, 2017
19:15 (IST)
Confession Was Obtained After India Sought Access: Pakistan
We sought help with provision of evidence, but only got deafening silence
The confession video was aired. it was plainly incorrect that video was aired after access was sought
Consular access request would be considered in the light of response to legal assistance request
Jadhav not tried in some Kangaroo court
It is not acceptable to invoke jurisdiction of International Court of Justice
We sought help with provision of evidence, but only got deafening silence
The confession video was aired. it was plainly incorrect that video was aired after access was sought
Consular access request would be considered in the light of response to legal assistance request
Jadhav not tried in some Kangaroo court
It is not acceptable to invoke jurisdiction of International Court of Justice
May 15, 2017
19:06 (IST)
We will invite the court to dismiss application: Pakistan's counsel
There is no urgency in the matter
Jurisdiction under Vienna convention is limited by 2008 agreement
India is urging court to not permit oral hearing. There are flaws in India's approach
There were four stages of the trial. Pakistan made it clear that Jadhav wasn't eligible for consular access
India has been using media to misinterpret Jadhav case
Court not given material that was given to India on January 23 2017. It had 13 names that Jadhav had dislcosed
Cover letter sought assistance of Indian authorities to bank account details
There is no urgency in the matter
Jurisdiction under Vienna convention is limited by 2008 agreement
India is urging court to not permit oral hearing. There are flaws in India's approach
There were four stages of the trial. Pakistan made it clear that Jadhav wasn't eligible for consular access
India has been using media to misinterpret Jadhav case
Court not given material that was given to India on January 23 2017. It had 13 names that Jadhav had dislcosed
Cover letter sought assistance of Indian authorities to bank account details
May 15, 2017
18:48 (IST)
Pakistan wishes to live in peace with neighbours
We have no desire to waste court's time and resources to score political parties
Indian media reported International Court of Justice's letter as a 'stay' which it is not. This shows maneuvering
We have no desire to waste court's time and resources to score political parties
Indian media reported International Court of Justice's letter as a 'stay' which it is not. This shows maneuvering
May 15, 2017
18:44 (IST)
Viewers can decide if Jadhav is confessing voluntarily
Pakistan gives 150 days after conviction
There is no potential for writ petition of high court to be invoked
Individuals have got relief from Pakistan courts in the past
Pakistan gives 150 days after conviction
There is no potential for writ petition of high court to be invoked
Individuals have got relief from Pakistan courts in the past
May 15, 2017
18:35 (IST)
India Used World Court For Political Theatre: Pakistan
We remain committed to path of peaceful resolution whatever the provocation
India is unwiiling to explain Jadhav's passport
It is important for court to hear Kulbhushan Jadhav's confession
Won't be cowed down by terrorism
India's silence is telling. They could and should have responded to letter from Pakistan seeking their assistance
We remain committed to path of peaceful resolution whatever the provocation
India is unwiiling to explain Jadhav's passport
It is important for court to hear Kulbhushan Jadhav's confession
Won't be cowed down by terrorism
India's silence is telling. They could and should have responded to letter from Pakistan seeking their assistance
May 15, 2017
18:32 (IST)
Pakistan responds to India's charges at UN court in Kulbhushan Jadhav's case
May 15, 2017
14:04 (IST)
The situation is grave, it is urgent, and hence approached this court at such short notice.
Kulbhushan Jadhav was allegedly arrested in Pakistan (withing Pak territory). Pakistan did not inform India of the arrest.
ISPR (Pak army media) spokesperson stated that Mr Jadhav does not have the right to consular access. We have his statements
There have been three instances:
Plausibility context in Costa Rica vs Nicaragua case; Belgium and Senegal standard of plausibility.
In
Paraguay vs USA, the court decided that government of US was asked to
take steps to give rights of access of Paraguan national.
In Germany vs USA, court held that execution of the German national was an irreparable damage to justice.
There are multiple legal options available to Kulbhushan Jadhav.
The
execution of the death sentence cannot be done while this court is
hearing the appeal. Else, it will be a violation of the Vienna
Convention.
Pakistan has failed to provide a clear assurance that the execution will not be carried out.
Ambivalence is a good reason for indication of provisional measures.
Pakistan
has claimed overwhelming evidence of covert/spying activities. But
despite India's repeated requests, not provided a single shred of
evidence or any documentation regarding the same.
India refutes charges that Mr Jadhav was involved in espionage.
Mr Jadhav was kidnapped in Iran and his confession was extracted in military captivity,
Pak Foreign Affairs spokesperson made baseless, contrived and propaganda-driven allegations against Kulbhushan Jadhav.
Charges of Pakistan lack credibility.
Throughout his incarceration in Pakistan, Mr Jadhav has been denied consular rights.
The application filed by India bases its case on Article 1 of the Convention.
Court
has a reputation that it has granted consular access whenever a case
was heard in military court. India asserts Pakistan has not provided
consular access.
India has not been given the copy of the charges. Therefore, India is unable to comment on the allegations on Mr Jadhav.
We want appropriate legal representation for Kulbhushan Jadhav.
India
bases its claims solely on Vienna Convention. It states that any
arrested needs to be reported expeditiously to the relevant country.
This is a prima facie case of a violation of the Vienna convention.
Circumstances of Mr Jadhav's presence in Pakistan remain unexplained.
The farcical nature of the trial has destroyed any credibility Pakistan has of fair train in this case.
Graver the charges, greater the need for continued adherence of Vienna Convention.
Seriousness of the case only shows that consular access is justified.
In the circumstances, I request that provisional measure be placed that Kulbhushan Jadhav is not executed and that Pakistan takes no action that violates rights of India.
Pak May Execute Kulbhushan Jadhav Before Court Decision: India
Immediate threat to Kulbhushan Jadhav of being executed by Pak even before decision of top UN court, says India
India and Pakistan are both parties of the United Nations and thereby of the Vienna Convention.
There
is a bilateral agreement between India and Pak, which mentions the
article 36. It can only supplement the Vienna convention, not replace
it.
Dr Deepak Mittal leads the Indian delegation at the International Court of Justice
Pakistan is in violation of the Vienna Convention. Kulbhushan
Jadhav is held without getting any consular access. He now faces
execution.
Mr Jadhav has been sentenced to death by a military court in violation of rights under article 36.
Despite requests by India, Pakistan has not given any evidence or document to India.
There has been no response by Pakistan to allow Mr Jadhav's parents to visit him, despite requests.
Mr
Jadhav has not got the right to get proper legal assistance and the
right to consular access. There is an immediate threat to him to be
executed even before a decision is passed here.
India and Pakistan are both parties of the United Nations and thereby of the Vienna Convention.
There
is a bilateral agreement between India and Pak, which mentions the
article 36. It can only supplement the Vienna convention, not replace
it.
International Court of Justice:
India has asked the International Court of Justice that
Pakistan take all measures necessary to ensure Kulbhushan Jadhav is not
executed.
According to article 74, a request for provisional measure will have priority over all other requests.
The court will hear India until 11:30 am (local time). It will hear Pakistan from 3 to 3:30 PM today.
Parties
should limit themselves to only what is relevant. They should not enter
into the merits of the case than what is necessary.
Hearing Over Kulbhushan Jadhav Case At The International Court of Justice Begins
Today, India vs Pakistan Over Kulbhushan Jadhav At International Court Of Justice: 10 Points
Sick little boy's last miracle which is comforting his heartbroken mum after he died in her arms
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It's a memory any parent would happily forego, if it meant their child could live to a happy old age.
Tragically, Ruth Scully can recall exactly what the last conversation she had with her beloved young son was.
On February 7 this year, Ruth, from Maryland, said good-bye to her boy, Nolan.
Yet in spite of the battle he had to navigate, Nolan's four short years were characterised by a courage, maturity and optimism which belied his young age.
However, it's not the 18 months Nolan spent fighting which is the focus of Ruth's recent, heartbreaking tribute to her son.
Instead, she has written a heartrending and raw account of Nolan's last days, and shared it on the Facebook page dedicated to her son, Nolan Strong .
Not always easy reading at times, Ruth's objective nevertheless was to put across, "how beautiful he is. How he was made of nothing but pure love."
"When I brought Nolan to the hospital for the last time, I knew there was something else wrong other than just a lingering case of C. Diff (a bacterium that can infect the bowel and cause diarrhoea).
"I just knew, and strange enough, I think he did too. He hadn't eaten or drank anything in days and was continually vomiting."
On February 1, Ruth sat down to speak with Nolan's entire team.
"When his Oncologist spoke, I saw the pure pain in her eyes.
"She had always been honest with us and fought along side of us the whole time, but his updated CT scan showed large tumours that grew compressing his bronchial tubes and heart within four weeks of his open chest surgery."
In Ruth's own words, the cancer "was spreading like wild fire" and "had become resistant to all treatment options we had tried."
There was nothing left to be done, save for make Nolan as comfortable as possible as his condition deteriorated.
It's news no parent can ever prepare themselves to face, much less explain to their child.
"I sat down with him and put my head up against his and had the following conversation:
"Me: Poot, it hurts to breathe doesn't it
"Nolan: Well...yeah.
"Me: You're in a lot of pain aren't you, baby?
"Nolan: (looking down) Yeah.
"Me: Poot, this cancer stuff sucks. You don't have to fight anymore.
"Nolan: (Pure Happiness) I DON'T?! But I will for you Mommy!!
"Me: No Poot! Is that what you have been doing? Fighting for Mommy?
"Nolan: Well DUH!!
"Me: Nolan Ray, what is Mommy's job?
"Nolan: To keep me SAFE! (With a big grin)
"Me: Honey..I can't do that anymore here. The only way I can keep you safe is in Heaven. (My heart shattering)
"Nolan: So, I'll just go to Heaven and play until you get there! You'll come right?
"Me: Absolutely!! You can't get rid of Mommy that easy!!
"Nolan: Thank you Mommy! I'll go play with Hunter and Brylee and Henry!"
"When he woke up we had the van packed and I had his shoes in my hand to take him home for the evening.
"We just wanted ONE more night together.
"But as he woke, he gently put his hand on mine and said 'Mommy, it's ok. Let's just stay here ok?'
"My four year-old hero was trying to make sure things were easy for me...
"So in between sleeping for the next 36 hours, we played, watched YouTube, shot Nerf Gun after Nerf Gun and smiled as many times as we could.
"An hour or so before he passed he even filled out a will!
"We lay in bed together and he sketched out how he wanted his funeral, picked his pallbearers, what he wanted people to wear, wrote down what he was leaving each of us, and even wrote down what he wanted to be remembered as - which of course was a Policeman."
"I asked Nolan if I could get in the shower, as I was not allowed to leave him and Mommy had to be touching him at all times.
"He said 'Umm, OK Mommy. Have Uncle Chris come sit with me and I'll turn this way so I can see you.'
"I stood at the bathroom door, turned to him and said 'Keep looking right here, Poot, I'll be out in two seconds.'
"He smiled at me. I shut the bathroom door.
"They said the moment the bathroom door clicked he shut his eyes and went into a deep sleep, beginning the end of life passing."
"When I opened the bathroom door, his team was surrounding his bed and every head turned and looked at me with tears in their eyes.
"They said 'Ruth, he's in a deep sleep. He can't feel anything'. His respiration was extremely laboured, his right lung had collapsed and his oxygen dropped."
"I ran and jumped into bed with him and put my hand on the right side of his face.
"He woke up out of a coma to say he loved me with a smile on his face!
"My son died a hero. He brought communities together, different occupations, made a difference in people's lives all around the world.
It's a memory any parent would happily forego, if it meant their child could live to a happy old age.
Tragically, Ruth Scully can recall exactly what the last conversation she had with her beloved young son was.
On February 7 this year, Ruth, from Maryland, said good-bye to her boy, Nolan.
He was just four years old when he passed away.
Nolan had spent much of his short life battling Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer which he was diagnosed with in November 2015.Yet in spite of the battle he had to navigate, Nolan's four short years were characterised by a courage, maturity and optimism which belied his young age.
However, it's not the 18 months Nolan spent fighting which is the focus of Ruth's recent, heartbreaking tribute to her son.
Instead, she has written a heartrending and raw account of Nolan's last days, and shared it on the Facebook page dedicated to her son, Nolan Strong .
Not always easy reading at times, Ruth's objective nevertheless was to put across, "how beautiful he is. How he was made of nothing but pure love."
"This may be long, but bear with me, it's agony unlike any other."
Ruth remembers the day both she and Nolan knew their journey was coming to an end."When I brought Nolan to the hospital for the last time, I knew there was something else wrong other than just a lingering case of C. Diff (a bacterium that can infect the bowel and cause diarrhoea).
On February 1, Ruth sat down to speak with Nolan's entire team.
"When his Oncologist spoke, I saw the pure pain in her eyes.
"She had always been honest with us and fought along side of us the whole time, but his updated CT scan showed large tumours that grew compressing his bronchial tubes and heart within four weeks of his open chest surgery."
In Ruth's own words, the cancer "was spreading like wild fire" and "had become resistant to all treatment options we had tried."
There was nothing left to be done, save for make Nolan as comfortable as possible as his condition deteriorated.
It's news no parent can ever prepare themselves to face, much less explain to their child.
Yet Ruth managed to compose herself and talk to Nolan about what was going to happen.
"He was sitting in 'Mommy's Red Chair' watching YouTube on his Tablet."I sat down with him and put my head up against his and had the following conversation:
"Me: Poot, it hurts to breathe doesn't it
"Nolan: Well...yeah.
"Me: You're in a lot of pain aren't you, baby?
"Nolan: (looking down) Yeah.
"Me: Poot, this cancer stuff sucks. You don't have to fight anymore.
"Nolan: (Pure Happiness) I DON'T?! But I will for you Mommy!!
"Me: No Poot! Is that what you have been doing? Fighting for Mommy?
"Nolan: Well DUH!!
"Me: Nolan Ray, what is Mommy's job?
"Nolan: To keep me SAFE! (With a big grin)
"Me: Honey..I can't do that anymore here. The only way I can keep you safe is in Heaven. (My heart shattering)
"Nolan: So, I'll just go to Heaven and play until you get there! You'll come right?
"Me: Absolutely!! You can't get rid of Mommy that easy!!
"Nolan: Thank you Mommy! I'll go play with Hunter and Brylee and Henry!"
In the days which followed, Nolan mostly slept.
Ruth had to face another harrowing task, signing her son's Do Not Resuscitate order, something she describes saying, "I cannot explain to you what signing this order for your angelic son feels like."When he woke up we had the van packed and I had his shoes in my hand to take him home for the evening.
"We just wanted ONE more night together.
"But as he woke, he gently put his hand on mine and said 'Mommy, it's ok. Let's just stay here ok?'
"My four year-old hero was trying to make sure things were easy for me...
"So in between sleeping for the next 36 hours, we played, watched YouTube, shot Nerf Gun after Nerf Gun and smiled as many times as we could.
"An hour or so before he passed he even filled out a will!
"We lay in bed together and he sketched out how he wanted his funeral, picked his pallbearers, what he wanted people to wear, wrote down what he was leaving each of us, and even wrote down what he wanted to be remembered as - which of course was a Policeman."
Then at 9pm, Ruth had her last conversation with her son.
"I asked Nolan if I could get in the shower, as I was not allowed to leave him and Mommy had to be touching him at all times.
"He said 'Umm, OK Mommy. Have Uncle Chris come sit with me and I'll turn this way so I can see you.'
"I stood at the bathroom door, turned to him and said 'Keep looking right here, Poot, I'll be out in two seconds.'
"He smiled at me. I shut the bathroom door.
"They said the moment the bathroom door clicked he shut his eyes and went into a deep sleep, beginning the end of life passing."
"When I opened the bathroom door, his team was surrounding his bed and every head turned and looked at me with tears in their eyes.
"They said 'Ruth, he's in a deep sleep. He can't feel anything'. His respiration was extremely laboured, his right lung had collapsed and his oxygen dropped."
"I ran and jumped into bed with him and put my hand on the right side of his face.
"Then a miracle I will never forget happened.
"My angel took a breath, opened his eyes, smiled at me and said 'I love you mommy', turned his head towards me and at 11:54 pm Sgt. Rollin Nolan Scully passed away as I was singing 'You are My Sunshine' in his ear."He woke up out of a coma to say he loved me with a smile on his face!
"My son died a hero. He brought communities together, different occupations, made a difference in people's lives all around the world.
PENGUINS, NASHVILLE PREDATORS, ANAHEIM DUCKS PACE PLAYOFF PACK
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Thanks for the memories, Round 1 -- including those
Stanley Cup playoffs-record 18 overtime games and the nonstop drama. Now it's
time to contemplate the merits of the eight teams left standing for the second round, which begins on Wednesday. We sized them up in
the Playoff Power Rankings, Part II:
1. (LAST WEEK: 1) PITTSBURGH PENGUINS
The defending champions tore through a very tough Columbus Blue
Jackets team in five games without No. 1 goalie Matt Murray,
defenseman Kris Letang or
left wingers Chris Kunitz and Carl Hagelin.
The Penguins didn't need them because Evgeni Malkin was
on fire, with 11 points in five games. And 22-year-old rookie Jake Guentzel led
Pittsburgh -- and the league -- with five postseason goals. Bring on the
Capitals.
2. (5) ANAHEIM DUCKS
I'm not sure most people understand just how good the
Ducks -- who have now gone undefeated in regulation in 18 consecutive games
(15-0-3), including their impressive, first-round sweep of the Calgary
Flames -- are. I love the Ryan Kesler-Connor
McDavid matchup that awaits when Anaheim faces off against
the Edmonton
Oilers in the conference semifinals. Can Anaheim goalie John Gibson match
Edmonton's Cam Talbot, who was sensational for most of the first round? The
answer might determine who moves on to the Western Conference finals.
3. (3) NASHVILLE PREDATORS
The preseason-darling Predators became postseason
darlings after their shocking sweep of the Central Division-champion Chicago
Blackhawks. Can the St. Louis
Blues contain Nashville's big line of Ryan Johansen, Viktor
Arvidsson and Filip
Forsberg, who combined for 15 points in Round 1? Chicago couldn't.
More important, can the Blues dent a Nashville defense that allowed just three
goals to the Blackhawks?
4. (2) ST. LOUIS BLUES
The Blues were a machine while dismantling the
favored Minnesota
Wild in five games, and they get center Paul Stastny back
for Round 2. They'll need him, as the deep, battle-tested Predators should
provide a much sterner test. Once-shaky goalie Jake Allen,
who boasts a .956 save percentage and 1.47 goals-against average this
postseason, has found his groove for St. Louis.
5. (7) WASHINGTON CAPITALS
I was sorry to see the Capitals-Toronto Maple
Leafs series end. The question for the Capitals now is how
quickly they can put behind them the emotionally draining, six-game roller
coaster against Toronto and focus on Sidney Crosby and
the Penguins. My guess is they've already done so. Goalie Braden Holtby
elevated his game in Games 5 and 6 against the Leafs.
He'll have to keep up his superb play if the Caps are to move on to a
conference finals for the first time in the Alex Ovechkin era.
6. (4) EDMONTON OILERS
The youthful Oilers finished strong in the first round
after getting waxed 7-0 in Game 4 by the San Jose
Sharks. Edmonton prevailed in two close games to defeat San Jose in
six -- and win in its first playoff series since the 2006 Western Conference
finals. But Anaheim is in a class above, so Edmonton will need to see more from
McDavid, who had one short-handed goal, two assists on the power play and an
empty-netter in his first playoff series. Talbot, the first-round MVP, will
have his work cut out for him against the big, skilled Ducks lineup.
7. (11) NEW YORK RANGERS
The Rangers-Ottawa
Senators' second-round matchup is the lowest-profile series of the
four. Henrik
Lundqvist is once again The King, with a .947 save percentage,
and he'll need to keep ruling the net against a tireless, gritty Ottawa squad.
Rangers captain Ryan McDonagh is
on a mission, and left winger Rick Nash showed
flashes of his former brilliance in the Rangers' six-game set with the Montreal
Canadiens.
8. (9) OTTAWA SENATORS
It seems like no one respects the Senators. I'm pretty
sure they don't care. Both Bobby Ryan,
who had four goals and seven points, and Clarke
MacArthur, who looked just a few months ago like his career was over
because of multiple concussions, had a terrific series against the Boston Bruins.
MacArthur launched Ottawa into the second round with an OT winner in Game 6 on
Sunday. The Senators will be underdogs against the Rangers despite having
home-ice advantage. I'm pretty sure they don't care about that, either.Thermo Fisher Scientific to launch informatics offerings
Thermo Fisher Scientific to launch informatics offerings
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During PITTCON 2011, Thermo Fisher will launch a significant new release of the company's flagship laboratory data management solution that is designed for large-scale process and industrial laboratories. Developed to facilitate compliance with ISO and GLP, the new solution combines more than 25 years of knowledge, experience, customer input.
The company will also showcase a new LIMS solution for water and environmental applications. The solution is designed to help labs keep pace with the rapidly changing regulatory environment, including the Safe Drinking Water Act and the EPA's Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment. All of Thermo Fisher's informatics solutions are designed to ease the burdens of regulatory compliance, and the company provides solutions across a broad range of global industries.
"With these new releases and our powerful portfolio of purpose-built products that span all industries, the Informatics exhibit at PITTCON will demonstrate how we work with and enable our customers to automate and integrate their laboratory operations," said Dave Champagne, vice president and general manager for the Informatics business at Thermo Fisher Scientific. "From managing samples and resources to cost-effectively capturing and analyzing quality data, providing essential reports and ensuring regulatory compliance, no other company offers the breadth of solutions and depth of industry experience across the full spectrum of laboratory software applications, from small single-purpose laboratories to complex integrations across global enterprises."
In addition to showcasing its informatics offerings during PITTCON 2011, Thermo Fisher Scientific will exhibit a wide range of industry-leading instrumentation and services designed to facilitate the efficiency of
complex workflows and processes.
Ransomware, Microsoft Corporation
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Ransomware stops you from using your PC. It holds your PC or files for "ransom". This page describes what ransomware is and what it does, and provides advice on how to prevent and recover from ransomware infections.
They can target any PC users, whether it’s a home computer, endpoints in an enterprise network, or servers used by a government agency or healthcare provider.
Ransomware can:
There is no guarantee that paying the fine or doing what the ransomware tells you will give access to your PC or files again.
Lockscreen ransomware shows a full-screen message that prevents you from accessing your PC or files. It says you have to pay money (a “ransom”) to get access to your PC again.
Encryption ransomware changes your files so you can’t open them. It does this by encrypting the files – see the Details for enterprises section if you’re interested in the technologies and techniques we’ve seen.
Older versions of ransom usually claim you have done something illegal with your PC, and that you are being fined by a police force or government agency.
These claims are false. It is a scare tactic designed to make you pay the money without telling anyone who might be able to restore your PC.
Newer versions encrypt the files on your PC so you can’t access them, and then simply demand money to restore your files.
Ransomware can get on your PC from nearly any source that any other malware (including viruses) can come from. This includes:
That’s why the best solution to ransomware is to be safe on the Internet and with emails and online chat:
The sensitive files are encrypted, and large amounts of money are demanded to restore the files. Generally, the attacker has a list of file extensions or folder locations that the ransomware will target for encryption.
Due to the encryption of the files, it can be practically impossible to reverse-engineer the encryption or “crack” the files without the original encryption key – which only the attackers will have access to.
The best advice for prevention is to ensure company-confidential, sensitive, or important files are securely backed up in a remote, un-connected backup or storage facility.
OneDrive for Business can assist in backing up everyday files.
In some cases, third-party tools released by some security firms are able to decrypt files for some specifically ransomware families. See our blog FireEye and Fox-IT tool can help recover Crilock-encrypted files for an example. Tim Rains, Microsoft Director of Security, released the blog Ransomware: Understanding the risk in April 2016 that summarizes the state of ransomware and provides statistics, details, and preventative suggestions to enterprises and IT professionals: Our Threat intelligence report: Ransomware also includes suggestions on prevention and recovery, statistics, and details.
The past six months (between December 2015 and May 2016) have seen the rise of Tescrypt globally. Crowti remains near the top of the pack, as does Brolo and FakeBsod.
Reveton has also dropped down the ladder, now at 1% of the top 10 share, down from 7% for the preceding 6 months.
For the top 10 countries with the most detections, the United States takes a full half of all detections. Italy is
second, followed closely by Canada, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. After that the distribution is spread across
the globe.
The greatest detections in the US were for FakeBsod, followed by Tescrypt and Brolo. Tescrypt was also prevalent in
Italy.
FakeBsod uses a malicious piece of JavaScript code to lock your web browser and show a fake warning message when you visit a compromised or malicious webpage. The warning message tells you to “contact Microsoft technicians” about an “Error 333 Registry Failure of operating system – Host: Blue screen Error 0x0000000CE”. If you call the phone number in the message you will be asked to pay money to “fix” the issue.
An example of the fake warning message is shown in Figure 5:
You can regain control of your web browser without paying anything by closing the warning message using the Task Manager.
When you reopen your browser, make sure you don't click Restore previous session.
PC: https://www.microsoft.com/
Ransomware
Ransomware stops you from using your PC. It holds your PC or files for "ransom". This page describes what ransomware is and what it does, and provides advice on how to prevent and recover from ransomware infections.
What does ransomware do?
There are different types of ransomware. However, all of them will prevent you from using your PC normally, and they will all ask you to do something before you can use your PC.They can target any PC users, whether it’s a home computer, endpoints in an enterprise network, or servers used by a government agency or healthcare provider.
Ransomware can:
- Prevent you from accessing Windows.
- Encrypt files so you can't use them.
- Stop certain apps from running (like your web browser).
There is no guarantee that paying the fine or doing what the ransomware tells you will give access to your PC or files again.
Details for home users
There are two types of ransomware – lockscreen ransomware and encryption ransomware.Lockscreen ransomware shows a full-screen message that prevents you from accessing your PC or files. It says you have to pay money (a “ransom”) to get access to your PC again.
Encryption ransomware changes your files so you can’t open them. It does this by encrypting the files – see the Details for enterprises section if you’re interested in the technologies and techniques we’ve seen.
Older versions of ransom usually claim you have done something illegal with your PC, and that you are being fined by a police force or government agency.
These claims are false. It is a scare tactic designed to make you pay the money without telling anyone who might be able to restore your PC.
Newer versions encrypt the files on your PC so you can’t access them, and then simply demand money to restore your files.
Ransomware can get on your PC from nearly any source that any other malware (including viruses) can come from. This includes:
- Visiting unsafe, suspicious, or fake websites.
- Opening emails and email attachments from people you don’t know, or that you weren’t expecting.
- Clicking on malicious or bad links in emails, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media posts, instant messenger chats, like Skype.
That’s why the best solution to ransomware is to be safe on the Internet and with emails and online chat:
- Don’t click on a link on a webpage, in an email, or in a chat message unless you absolutely trust the page or sender.
- If you’re ever unsure – don’t click it!
- Often fake emails and webpages have bad spelling, or just look unusual. Look out for strange spellings of company names (like “PayePal” instead of “PayPal”) or unusual spaces, symbols, or punctuation (like “iTunesCustomer Service” instead of “iTunes Customer Service”).
Details for enterprises and IT professionals
The number of enterprise victims being targeted by ransomware is increasing. Usually, the attackers specifically research and target a victim (similar to whale-phishing or spear-phishing – and these in fact may be techniques used to gain access to the network).The sensitive files are encrypted, and large amounts of money are demanded to restore the files. Generally, the attacker has a list of file extensions or folder locations that the ransomware will target for encryption.
Due to the encryption of the files, it can be practically impossible to reverse-engineer the encryption or “crack” the files without the original encryption key – which only the attackers will have access to.
The best advice for prevention is to ensure company-confidential, sensitive, or important files are securely backed up in a remote, un-connected backup or storage facility.
OneDrive for Business can assist in backing up everyday files.
In some cases, third-party tools released by some security firms are able to decrypt files for some specifically ransomware families. See our blog FireEye and Fox-IT tool can help recover Crilock-encrypted files for an example. Tim Rains, Microsoft Director of Security, released the blog Ransomware: Understanding the risk in April 2016 that summarizes the state of ransomware and provides statistics, details, and preventative suggestions to enterprises and IT professionals: Our Threat intelligence report: Ransomware also includes suggestions on prevention and recovery, statistics, and details.
Prevalent ransomware
Globally, ransomware continues to be a problem. In particular, we’ve seen increases in Italy and the eastern seaboard of the US.The past six months (between December 2015 and May 2016) have seen the rise of Tescrypt globally. Crowti remains near the top of the pack, as does Brolo and FakeBsod.
Reveton has also dropped down the ladder, now at 1% of the top 10 share, down from 7% for the preceding 6 months.
FakeBsod uses a malicious piece of JavaScript code to lock your web browser and show a fake warning message when you visit a compromised or malicious webpage. The warning message tells you to “contact Microsoft technicians” about an “Error 333 Registry Failure of operating system – Host: Blue screen Error 0x0000000CE”. If you call the phone number in the message you will be asked to pay money to “fix” the issue.
An example of the fake warning message is shown in Figure 5:
You can regain control of your web browser without paying anything by closing the warning message using the Task Manager.
When you reopen your browser, make sure you don't click Restore previous session.
PC: https://www.microsoft.com/
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why do we need to save water ?
We’ve all grown up taking water for granted. Turned on the tap and
there's water. Flushed the toilet and there's water. Take a bath. Put on
the dishwasher.
We all use water without really thinking about it, but now we need to
change our ways! We’re at the tipping point of needing to take a more
active role in reducing the amount of water we use; otherwise we will
ultimately suffer higher water bills.
It’s only a matter of time before water conservation goes the same way
as recycling of household waste. Both are issues: recycling came about
because we need to conserve the world's natural resources and reduce
waste. In the same way, changes in weather patterns and the effects of
global warming have had such a dramatic effect on the UK’s water supply
that scarcity and cost are becoming increasingly important issues for
all of us.
Water conservation means using our water wisely and caring for it
properly. Since each of us depends on water for life, it is our
responsibility to learn more about water conservation and how we can
help keep our water pure and safe for generations to come.
Our water supply is finite, which means that we do not have an endless
supply. We only have the water that we have now. Ninety - seven percent
of all the water on the earth is salt water which is not suitable for
drinking. Only three percent of all the water is fresh water, and only
one percent is available for drinking water. The other two percent is
locked in ice caps and glaciers.
We must learn to save water now for the future. The quality of our water
is very important. We have the same amount of water now as there was
when the earth was created.
This is the water we have, and we must preserve its quality. Water is
the foundation of food and life. Next to air, water is our most precious
resource. Saving water helps to preserve our environment. It reduces
the energy required to process and deliver water, which helps in
reducing pollution and in conserving fuel resources.
Saving water now means having water available in the future for
recreational purposes, too. Conserving the water we have minimizes the
effects of water shortages and helps build a better defence against
future drought years. If we save water now, we are helping to ensure a
water supply adequate for future generations. Saving water saves money.
Take a look at the tips below and see if we can put this in to action - Water conservation is a big thing, but every little bit helps, so don't think that what you do doesn't matter. A whole lot of people doing a little bit adds up to a whole lot.
Ten ways to save water
- Turn off the tap - a running tap wastes over 6 litres of water per minute
- Fit taps and shower heads with flow restrictors- this cuts water use by half
- Fix dripping taps - they waste at least 5,500 litres of water a year
- Take a short shower instead of a bath
- Have a full load when you wash your clothes
- When washing your dishes in the sink, use a plug
- Fill the dishwasher before putting it on and use the eco setting
- Put a save-a-flush in your cistern - it will save one litre of water per flush
- Purchase water efficient appliances
- Do you have a garden? Install a water butt to collect rainwater, and use it to water your garden or wash your car.
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The anthropologist T.N.
Pandit at his home in New Delhi. In the 1960s, he began working in the
Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago.
Credit
Poras Chaudhary for The New York Times
The anthropologist T.N.
Pandit at his home in New Delhi. In the 1960s, he began working in the
Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago.
Credit
Poras Chaudhary for The New York Times
NEW
DELHI — At 82, the anthropologist T. N. Pandit passes his days in the
gentle occupations of old age: poetry, a Buddhist study circle, a daily
walk in the park. It is rare for anyone to ask him about the years he
spent with the hunter-gatherer tribes of the Andaman Islands. Only with
difficulty can he locate a single copy of the slender book he wrote
about that time.
Somewhere
in a drawer, though, there are photographs, capturing Mr. Pandit as he
made contact with some of the world’s most isolated people.
In these photographs, faded and curled with age, his face wears an expression of more or less pure joy.
Mr.
Pandit, the pale-skinned son of a Kashmiri professor, reaches to pass a
coconut to a group of naked, dark-skinned young men who have waded
waist-deep in water to greet him. He sits companionably beside a
dark-skinned young woman, whose hand rests casually on his thigh. Film shot in 1974 shows him — a reserved Brahmin — dancing exuberantly with a bare-breasted Jarawa woman.
It
took Mr. Pandit and his colleagues more than two decades to persuade
the tribes known as the Jarawa and Sentinelese to lay down their bows
and arrows and mingle peacefully with the Indian settlers who surrounded
them. The process was grindingly slow, involving trips into remote
jungle areas to leave gifts for people who would not show themselves. In
each case, though, there was an exhilarating breakthrough.
In India’s
Andaman Islands, these encounters occurred two centuries after
indigenous populations in the United States and Australia had been
devastated by disease and addiction, leaving no doubt of the dangers of
unregulated contact. Mr. Pandit found himself entrusted with the future
of tiny groups believed to have migrated from Africa around 50,000 years
ago, described by a team of geneticists as “arguably the most enigmatic people on our planet.” India would do it better, he promised himself.
So it is notable that now, when he looks back on his life’s great achievement, he does so with an unmistakable sadness.
Mr.
Pandit arrived in Port Blair, the capital city of the island chain, in
1966. Anthropology was such a new field in India that when he was
offered a spot to study it at Delhi University he had to look the word
up in the dictionary. His first government posting came as a
disappointment: the Andaman Islands, an archipelago so remote that the
British used it as a penal colony.
He found, to his surprise, that the place suited him. His head was full of the romantic phrases of A. R. Radcliffe-Brown,
a British anthropologist who studied the tribes at the turn of the
century, describing them as “brave, valiant and very clever people.” He
was dismayed to find their descendants begging for alms, teased by the
local children.
In 1991, T.N. Pandit, far left, presented gifts of coconuts to the Sentinelese people.
But
there were other tribes, he learned, that had hardly changed since the
days of Radcliffe-Brown. One group lived alone on a 20-square-mile
island called North Sentinel and had barely been seen at all. The other
group, known as the Jarawa, were fearsome archers, known for hiding in
the treetops and neatly impaling with arrows outsiders who encroached on
their territory. Government policy toward the Jarawa fell to the Bush
Police, who were armed with rifles and kept careful records of
casualties on both sides.
Mr.
Pandit was openly contemptuous of this martial approach, which dated
back to the British Raj. In 1967, he managed to join a “gift-dropping”
expedition to North Sentinel Island, where the police dropped off
coconuts and bananas while the members of the tribe, known as the
Sentinelese, hid in the forest.
“They
were watching us carefully, and they must not have been happy, because
they picked up their bows and arrows,” he said. “This whole encounter
was so amazing, because here is civilized man facing primitive man in
its extreme state, living very simply.”
In
1968, Mr. Pandit had a stroke of luck. Three Jarawa teenagers, captured
raiding a village, were kept in prison for a month, so Mr. Pandit had a
chance to study them at close range. He showed them airplanes and cars.
He scribbled down words in their language. After a month, the three
young men, loaded down with gifts, were released back to the forest.
There
was a silence. Then, six years later, for reasons Mr. Pandit could
never explain, a group of Jarawa greeted him on the beach with song and
dance. He visited, after that, every two weeks or so. They would strip
off his clothes, poke fingers in his eyes, pocket his spectacles.
He recalls these days, even now, with a kind of reverence and delight.
“I
have seen a Jarawa girl,” he said. “I can never forget her face, though
it was many years back. She sat in the boat watching us as if she was
Queen Victoria, with such dignity and such poise. You see, then I
realized one doesn’t need clothes and ornaments and crown to make you
dignified. What comes spontaneously, your inner self, you can project
your personality that way.”
Mr.
Pandit’s campaign worked. By the 1990s, the Jarawa were so at ease with
outsiders that they began to roam the neighboring settlements, where
they found food that required neither hunting nor gathering.
It
is difficult to identify the precise moment when contact with the
Jarawa came to be viewed as a problem. They began to fish and weave
baskets in exchange for money. Sometimes they snatched food from market
stalls. Video clips show Indian tourists tossing food to Jarawa on the
roadside, crudely ordering the women to dance. Babies fathered by Indian settlers were born to Jarawa women.
Activists concerned with the tribes increasingly described contact missions as
a kind of cultural destruction, introducing rot from within.
Governments in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia were adopting
“no-contact” policies, and India followed suit. Gift-giving expeditions
to the Sentinelese stopped in 1996, and the Indian Navy now enforces a
buffer zone to keep curiosity-seekers away.
In
2004, the central government formulated a new policy toward the Jarawa,
with the primary goal of protecting them “from harmful effects of
exposure and contact with the outside world.”
Mr. Pandit and his colleagues were able to
socialize with the isolated Jarawa tribe after a breakthrough. Here, in
an image from the 1980s, members of the tribe visited a ship anchored
off their land.
But
the process of integration, once begun, was impossible to stop, said
Samir Acharya, a local environmental activist, with a touch of
bitterness.
“Now
they have gotten infected,” he said. “They have been exposed to a
modern way of life they cannot sustain. They have learned to eat rice
and sugar. We have turned a free people into beggars.”
A
faction of anthropologists continue to defend the practice of
controlled contact, saying that humans are by nature social animals,
longing to interact. As one put it recently, “There is nothing
particularly attractive about living in an isolated tribe on the slow
road to extinction.” But their protestations have a weary tone, as of
one losing an argument.
Mr.
Pandit has followed these developments from the hushed apartment in New
Delhi where he lives with the third of his four daughters.
It
is nearly impossible for him to discuss his work in the Andaman Islands
without thinking of his wife, Roshi, who died in 2015. Roshi would sit
with him and endlessly discuss the tribes. His loss remains so painful
that he has tried to train his mind not to dwell on it. He struggles, he
says, to come to terms with the fleeting quality of human experience.
“Nothing is permanent,” he said. “What has gone on in the past looks like having been a dream.”
In the end, Mr. Pandit agrees that the Jarawa were hurt by putting down their bows and arrows.
“The
negative impact of close contact is inescapable, but it is sad,” he
said. “What an amazing community, but it has been diluted in its
outlook, its self-confidence, its sense of purpose, its sense of
survival. Now they take it easy. They beg for things.”
This
was not a surprise. He understood that his work would expose the tribes
to the outside, with its dazzling technology, and that they would
submit avidly. His aim, he said, was to control the process, to slow it
as much as possible, so that they understood the value of what they were
leaving behind.
“In the course of time, these communities will disappear,” he said. “Their cultures will be lost.”
Mr.
Pandit last traveled to Jarawa territory in 2014, on a visit to a
daughter in Port Blair. Since then, he has become more physically
fragile and doubts he will make the journey again. He is left with the
photographs — square black-and-whites from the 1970s, faded color from
the 1980s — and with his thoughts.
“I
see them sometimes in my dreams,” he said. “Just being with them and
spending a little time. Not too long. Not frequently. Just once in a
while.” And on those mornings, he said, he wakes up happy.
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