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Bills Stadium Will Get Security Boost
by Gene Warner
The hand-held wands are mostly gone. In their place are walk-through metal detectors at every gate.
That's the biggest change in game-day security for Buffalo Bills fans entering Ralph Wilson Stadium this year, and it starts Saturday at the preseason opener against the Indianapolis Colts.
While that's the most noticeable change in fans' game-day routines, many fans and Orchard Park residents will notice two other changes in nearby parking lots, and both should appeal to neighbors and town officials:
· Privately owned satellite parking lots will need permits to park vehicles, starting in the regular season, and police will be able to patrol those private properties.
· The campers' lot will be available by reservation only, probably eliminating the long lines that often formed outside the lot long before it opened on Saturday mornings.
But the metal detectors will affect the vast majority of Bills fans.
The metal detectors are designed to be less annoying, quicker and more effective than the hand-held wands that had been a fixture since 2012. Fans still will have to remove their cellphones and glass cases, but not their belts, shoes, wallets, keys, coins or watches.
Gameday Security: How Metal Detectors Provide a Safer College Football Environment
"You eliminate a lot of human error from the screening process, because now you're going through a metal detector," said Andy Major, the Bills vice president of operations and guest experience. "The walk-through metal detectors will provide our fans with a safer, less invasive and more efficient screening process to help them get inside the gates quicker."
Last year, the Bills and their security force installed 15 new metal detectors at one entry point, Gate 3, along the Abbott Road side of the stadium, in anticipation of installing the detectors at all gates this season.
The National Football League's Best Practices guidelines urged the implementation of walk-thru metal detectors in 2015 and 2016, while they're required for all teams in 2017, Major said.
Major and Scott Berchtold, senior vice president of communications, described the history of the security measures at stadium gates here, beginning with the universal pat-downs that took effect after the 9/11 attacks. That was followed by the hand-held wands starting in 2012 and now, metal detectors.
That evolution has followed the way the world has changed since 2001, Berchtold suggested.
The Bills will have roughly 100 metal detectors total at the various gates, staffed by CSC and APEX security officers, plus sheriff's deputies. Major said the team has installed more units than it probably needs, putting as many as it could fit into the available space.
The metal detectors, besides being less invasive than the wands, also speed up the process. That's because the detectors don't go off as frequently as the wands, and when they do, they signal where the detected metal is, like on the left shoulder or right foot.
Compared to the average of maybe 11 to 13 seconds for each fan in the wanding process, the metal detector will be a much quicker process.
"You literally walk right through, in one or two seconds," Major said. "It's drastically different than the wand."
People with artificial knees or hips will be able to go through the detectors, Major said, while any fan who objects to them can opt for the wand.
Despite the quicker entry times, Bills officials urge fans to arrive at the gates at least 45 minutes before kickoff.
The two parking lot changes came largely in response to safety and traffic concerns voiced by neighbors and Orchard Park officials, the Bills executives suggested.
Requiring reservations for the campers' lot should end or reduce the long lines of campers stretching from Abbott Road to Southwestern Boulevard, beginning late Friday, for fans waiting for the 8 a.m. Saturday lot opening.
Major said about 80 percent of the spaces have been sold through season passes, and the remainder should be sold in advance, so people without a pass have no reason to line up.
"It created traffic and safety issues for the town, for the Orchard Park police and for other vehicles in the area," he added.
The Bills, after working with town officials toward a new permit system for private satellite lots, are targeting the Sept. 15 home opener against the New York Jets to kick off that program.
"Those folks will have to get a permit to park cars on their property, and part of that permit will allow law enforcement to go into those lots," Major said.
The team's game-day policies and rules haven't changed much, including tight restrictions on bags and two measures enacted last season, banning all tobacco products and drones.
This year, the team has added another no-no – "battery-operated clothing."
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LA Rams say security is 'top priority' after fights erupt at preseason opener
By Susan Abram, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 08/19/16, 6:28 PM PDT
Rams fans return to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Saturday, where they'll see their team play the Kansas City Chiefs on the field.
What they don't want to see are fights off the field and in the stands.
That's why officials this week assured fans that security is priority No. 1 at the Coliseum after last week's preseason opener against the Dallas Cowboys.
The long-awaited game ended in a victory for the home team, but three people were arrested and seven were ejected from the stands after some tempers flared. Eleven ambulances also were requested, but only one person had to be taken to the hospital, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
"The security of fans attending our games is our top priority, and we have a comprehensive security operation in place for game days that includes the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Fire Department, California Highway Patrol and the FBI, in addition to private security firms," said Rams spokeswoman Joanna Hunter in a statement.
"After each game, we review any incidents and work with our partners to improve the fan experience and deliver a safe and enjoyable game day for guests," she added.
Hunter said there will be a different setup at some concession lines to improve traffic flow, to decrease wait times, as well as increased bike patrols around the perimeter to better manage fans at gates.
All the other safety precautions will be in place, such as metal detectors at all gates, and a policy that bans big purses and packs. Ticket holders can only carry personal items in a one-gallon clear plastic freezer bag. They can also carry small clutch bags about the size of a hand along with the clear bag. She urged ticket holders to go to www.therams.com/team/game/2016/preseason2 for more information.
Some fans said they were pleased with the overall level of safety at last week's game.
"As far as I know from my people, the security inside the stadium was pretty good," said Ralph Valdez, president of the Whittier-based Southern California Rams Booster Club.
But he thought more patrols were needed outside the stadium. Some fans left large coolers outside their vehicles parked in the lot while inside. When they returned, the contents inside the coolers were gone, Valdez said. But considering the crowd, the heat and the excitement, the number of arrests seemed pretty low, he added:
"I think a lot of people are blowing it out of proportion," Valdez said, noting the images of brawling spectators circulating on social media.
Last weekend's game marked the Rams' return to Los Angeles after a 22-year absence. That preseason game brought more than 89,000 people to the Coliseum, where the Rams defeated the Dallas Cowboys 28 to 24. It was the stadium's first NFL game since 1994.
Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Police Protective League issued a statement demanding that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the Rams, pay the full cost for necessary police services to ensure public safety at the team's home games as long as it plays at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
LAPPL spokesman Dustin DeRollo said security for Rams games in Los Angeles has created a need for more than 200 police officers and will cost $2 million this year.
A stadium scheduled to open in 2019 is being built for the Rams in Inglewood.
The Rams issued a statement saying the team is "working with the LAPD to find solutions that work for everyone — in fact, we have a few meetings already scheduled with LAPD and USC leadership in the coming weeks."
Valdez said he too is urging fans to act respectfully. He calls Rams fans a Ramily.
"I circulated a flier to try to remind everybody we're here to watch the game and not engage in any negative activity," he said.
http://www.dailynews.com/sports/20160819/la-rams-say-security-is-top-priority-after-fights-erupt-at-preseason-opener
Scenes From the Terrifying, Already Forgotten JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn't
By David Wallace-Wells
When the first stampede began, my plane had just landed. It started, apparently, with a group of passengers awaiting departure in John F. Kennedy Airport Terminal 8 cheering Usain Bolt's superhuman 100-meter dash. The applause sounded like gunfire, somehow, or to someone; really, it only takes one. According to some reports, one woman screamed that she saw a gun. The cascading effect was easier to figure: When people started running, a man I met later on the tarmac said, they plowed through the metal poles strung throughout the terminal to organize lines, and the metal clacking on the tile floors sounded like gunfire. Because the clacking was caused by the crowd, wherever you were and however far you'd run already, it was always right around you.
There was a second stampede, I heard some time later, in Terminal 4. I was caught up in two separate ones, genuine stampedes, both in Terminal 1. The first was in the long, narrow, low-ceilinged second-floor hallway approaching customs that was so stuffed with restless passengers that it felt like a cattle call, even before the fire alarm and the screaming and all the contradictory squeals that sent people running and yelling and barreling over each other — as well as the dropped luggage, passports, and crouched panicked women who just wanted to take shelter between their knees and hope for it, or "them," to pass. The second was later, after security guards had just hustled hundreds of us off of the tarmac directly into passport control, when a woman in a hijab appeared at the top of a flight of stairs, yelling out for a family member, it seemed, who had been separated from her in the chaos. The crowd seemed to rise up, squealing, and rush for the two small sets of double doors.
Probably there were other stampedes, some small and some large, throughout the airport, to judge by the thousands of passengers massed outside on the tarmac by about 11 p.m. — not a peaceful mass, but a panicked one. Some of them had been swept outside by police charging through the terminals with guns drawn, shouting for people to get down, show their hands, and drop their luggage, since nothing was more important than your life. Others had been on lines where TSA agents grabbed their gear and just ran, at least according to reports on Twitter. One man I talked to had darted down a jet bridge to take cover, inspiring others to follow, running and yelling. Only when he reached the end did he realize that the door was locked, and that, because there was no plane on the other side of it, he was actually suspended 20 feet or more in the air, like at the end of an unfinished bridge, with dozens or maybe even hundreds coming behind him. He'd have to smash the window, he figured, and try and open the door from the other side, then just jump. That's when he heard the screams of the crowd storming toward him: "They're coming this way!"
Envisioning the Hack That Could Take Down New York City
There was no "they." There was not even a "he," no armed person turning on a crowd. But what happened at JFK last night was, in every respect but the violence, a mass shooting. The fact that there was no attack at the center of it was both the weirdest and the scariest part — that an institution whose size and location and budget should make it a fortress, in a country that has spent 15 years focused compulsively on securing its airports, in a city with a terrifyingly competent anti-terror police unit, could be transformed into a scene of utter bedlam, stretching out from all eight terminals across the tarmac and onto the adjacent highways, by the whisper of a threat. Within minutes, the whole apparatus of the airport and its crowd-control mechanisms had collapsed into total disarray. When the thousands of us who had been racing away from shooters finally managed to catch our breath, long after midnight, the idea that the airport could ever manage a crowd, let alone a hysterical one, looked ridiculous. The fact that there had been, actually, nothing to panic about was an enormous relief, of course. But it made things all the more eerie the next morning, when we woke up feeling like survivors of a ghost trauma, a minor local-news story. For several hours, we were in the flood of panic and chaos of an ongoing act of terror. There's no other way to describe it. That it was an overreaction almost doesn't matter; in fact, that is how terrorism works.
By the time my flight landed, at about a quarter to eight, my wife, Risa, and I had been sitting on the plane — a Norwegian Air Dreamliner 787 from Copenhagen — for about eight hours. It was six hours later in Denmark, and seven where we'd started our trip home, which meant everyone was exhausted and everyone was irritated. Then the pilot came on the loudspeaker to say that we would be sitting on the tarmac for a while before we'd get to the gate. He couldn't say how long it would be; some weather in the area had briefly closed the airport, he said, and while our gate was available to us, there were also a lot of planes waiting to take off between us and the Jetway, and we were going to just have to wait for them to move. It didn't occur to anyone to wonder when and why weather had closed the airport considering we had just landed, but three PA announcements and 90 minutes later, when we finally did get to the gate, it was clear the pilot didn't know any better, either. "You can open the doors now," he told the flight attendants, tiredly.
The disembarking took forever. Risa and I were sitting about halfway back in coach and stood in the aisle for a good 15 minutes before we could even see anyone move. We had just gotten to the door when a woman in a yellow security jacket appeared on the jet bridge, ordering us back on the plane. She didn't explain why, and it was hard to tell, even thinking back on it later, how much she knew — whether she was following security orders but knowingly keeping the threat from passengers or simply following a blunt command. "Per U.S. Customs," she kept saying, but most of us seemed to treat her brusqueness as bureaucratic frustration. The flight attendants were especially aggressive. "Why?" one kept asking, over and over again. "I'm getting off," another one said. Since we were about to disembark, we'd been shuffled into the first-class area, where the pilot was, too, cursing JFK and guessing the airport was keeping us on the plane to let the customs line shorten; he'd caught a glimpse of just how long it was through the windshield and the window of the terminal. But nobody was panicked, except maybe that security officer. The woman right in front of me complained a few times about being separated from her husband, who had left the jet bridge already with her passport. Risa and I were talking about eating, and whether we were more hungry or tired.
When they let us go, ten minutes later, the security guard stood at the door cautioning everyone to stay calm, but I figured she was chastising Risa for having cut in front of the woman without the passport. When we turned left out of the gate, though, the line was there to meet us. This wasn't in passport control, or at the stairs leading down to it, but hundreds of yards closer, down the tiny hallway meant to bring us there. There were so many people you couldn't see your way forward, especially with the low ceilings, or know really how far we were from the front. I thought, for a second, Shit, somebody is going to get rowdy. I hadn't yet heard that the line was stuffed with passengers who'd come from Terminal 8, who'd been through that stampede and fled out onto the tarmac and were somehow convinced to crowd not just back into the building but into this condensed space — a several-football-field-sized sardine can that wasn't even moving.
I don't know if it was those people talking, ahead of me, that sparked it. People could have been checking their text messages, or Twitter, where the stampede in Terminal 8 had surfaced. Or people could've just freaked, unprompted, on edge from months and years of terror hysteria. On September 11, there were awful miscues among the first responders, but the accounts of what it was like for those inside the building, below the planes and before the buildings collapsed, were like inspiring morality plays — orderly descent down the stairs, with people passing on the left. Fifteen years later, we know better than not to panic.
On the right of the hallway was that familiar line of people-movers, each of them stalled, when suddenly somebody realized that you could lap the line by walking down it like it was a highway shoulder in a traffic jam. Risa turned, smiled, and dashed off to take advantage. I made a show of protesting, hanging back for a second, and then followed her, but probably 50 people had swum into that lane between us in the meantime, and I couldn't even catch sight of her to roll my eyes. Then the screaming began. I can't remember what happened first — the flashing light of a fire alarm, the yelled warnings of a bomb and a shooter, the people turning around in a mob panic. I thought I saw smoke. I know I saw bags dropped, people falling to the floor and others stomping past them, through them, on them. Everybody was screaming. And I couldn't find Risa. See her, really. Because there was no moving in the other direction. There was not even time or space to process what was happening, really. People were shouting about terrorism right next to me, as they ran next to me, but I wasn't thinking about a shooter; I was just thinking, GO!
Passengers hide behind their luggage at immigration control following reports of an active shooter.
Photo: BRIGITTE DUSSEAU
The word stampede comes from the animal kingdom — gazelles running away from lions, horses running from some other threat. But there is really no other word for what happened last night at JFK, because panic turned us all into animals. Not only did police and security fail to prevent the spectacle of mob hysteria; on some level, given the way they pressed a hysterical crowd right back into a compressed space, they staged it. The way they handled the fallout, though, might have been even worse.
At some point, running, I turned, I think, into a cinder-block stairwell. There, the crowd was a little sparser, and you could slow down and take stock. There wasn't anyone giving direction, but, downstairs, there were a few security guards who seemed a little more calm — they hadn't just been through a stampede, anyway. But they also had no idea what was going on, or what to do. At the bottom of the staircase was a break room, I think for the tarmac workers who handle luggage and runway security, which meant there were maybe ten or 15 of them, in yellow vests, among the 50 or 70 passengers who had gathered there. Risa wasn't among them. She'd been running down the hallway, she told me later, when the terminal turned and her crowd of sprinters met another crowd of sprinters, which everybody took to mean there were multiple shooters, attacking from multiple directions. Somebody called out they'd seen four of them. Soon she found herself in another stairwell, where there was one guard sobbing hysterically and screaming and another dismissing anyone who turned to him for help or leadership by yelling that he didn't want to die tonight, either. Where I was, there was more variety: A few were responsible-seeming, measured and urging everyone to stay calm; others just yelled at us to back off; and others seemed like stoned teenagers on a summer job, excitedly shouting, "Fuck, a mass shooting!" That they wore yellow vests with the word "security" made them, to the rest of us, the face of authority. But to them, the vest was just a job uniform, enclosing another panicked person in a crisis situation.
Nobody knew anything. We'd pushed past a bunch of security and out onto the tarmac, which seemed both safer and scarier in its black openness. But all of a sudden, all the guards were urging us back inside, not because they knew of any threat out there, but because they were following another protocol: It's illegal for civilians to be out on the tarmac, so we had to get back inside. Not that anyone bothered to explain that logic, or anything else; the best information anyone could give was "active shooter." Probably ten different guards said that to me, and nothing more. Where were their radios, I kept wondering. Why don't they know what to do with us, or at least what to tell us? Surely an airport like JFK would have a contingency plan for a situation like this, which would call for passengers to be taken to a particular place or dealt with in a particular way. If there is such a plan, I saw no evidence of it last night, nor any sign of meaningful or helpful lines of communication between the various parts of the airport operation or the security forces that flooded in after the first reports of gunfire. It was several hours in, after the second stampede, that I even encountered my first cop, a member of the Port Authority police; by the time I left the airport several hours later, I still hadn't seen a single one of them address the crowd to give any kind of information or direction, and hadn't seen a single NYPD officer. It was an event, in the end, of mass crowd hysteria, and yet, crowd control had fallen entirely to the people who scurry around on the tarmac beneath the planes, literally never encountering passengers in their work. One of them told me, later, that 500 cops were presently clearing the terminal; not a single one, at that point, had been deployed to deal with the crowd outside.
The complete breakdown was terrifyingly clear as soon as the security guards managed to stuff us back inside. The only place to go was that break room: a cinder-block bunker with one tiny door and no cell reception. It wasn't hard to reimagine it as a perfect corral for a machine-gun killer; in fact, everyone kept imagining it, and kept telling the security guards that. In response, we were told that both entrances were sealed — the door upstairs I had come through and the one out to the tarmac — but we kept hearing those doors open and slam shut. Guards were rushing back and forth, themselves panicked, and each time any one of them made a sudden movement, the rest of us seemed to swell up, too, and surge forward for the door. Guards and passengers kept screaming at each other; if the security had been armed, a shooting wouldn't have just been possible but likely. A mother was wailing about having been separated from her child and being told to keep calm by a yelling husband and a handful of angry guards. A Norwegian father with a big red beard had gathered his family behind him, like he would be a shield, and darting his head out into the hallway every so often to take stock of the threat. People were shouting about where to hide, and a woman in the back was screaming to move the soda machine to block the door; a security guard, ignoring her, walked up to it to buy a Coke.
JFK Airport Evacuated After False Reports of Shots Fired
At this point, I didn't just believe there was a massacre of some kind unfolding, I knew it, most clearly in my legs, which didn't stop wobbling at the knee for the 45 minutes I was in that room. I didn't think there was an imminent threat, exactly; I hadn't heard any shots in that first stampede, which felt like a sign that the shooter or shooters had been far away, and I had enough faith in the NYPD to think that, say, an hour later they'd have things under control. Then I kept remembering: Where was the NYPD? And where was Risa? I had no cell reception but kept sending her text messages. She was doing the same, and calling me, each call straight to voice-mail. And then my phone died. I don't think I've ever been more panicked in my life. I knew it was unlikely that, in a terminal this large, a shooter would show up where I was. But of course, you also expect it has to happen to you. What could I do? I just stood there and waited for it.
Finally, by some reasoning nobody explained, the guards let us out on the tarmac again. The air was sweet with jet fuel. At first, people seemed to be sticking close to the terminal walls, maybe out of caution or maybe because all the security guards were yelling at us to stay away from the planes, whose jets were still humming over head. A few people nervously lit cigarettes, which couldn't have been safe, and the crowd shuffled back and forth, some looking for people they'd lost in the chaos, and others following their rhythm since they didn't have any other idea what to do. I saw our plane, noticed the jet engine had been manufactured by Rolls Royce, then looked down the line, to an Air Korea jet that had deployed its inflatable slides to let passengers off when the first reports came in. The tarmac was teeming.
As soon as I found Risa, it felt like, they were hustling us back inside saying the runway was unsafe. Was that because shooters were out there? "I really don't want to go back into a crowded room with all these insane people," I said. "I just want to get out of here," Risa said. "Can we just get to the highway somehow? Or jump in the water?" she laughed. "I think they'd shoot us," I said. Not that I knew who "they" were. I still hadn't seen a single proper cop. We had cell reception, by that point, and Risa's phone, but there was no real news, only word that terminals were being evacuated after reports of a shooting. It wasn't clear how many terminals, or how many shooters.
Inside the customs room was quiet chaos. I couldn't quite see, but it didn't look like there were any passport agents at the desks. People were swarming toward them, though. Risa found a security guard, one of the people in maroon blazers that asks whether you're a U.S. citizen or foreigner, and then tells you what line to go to. "Are there actually agents at those desks?" she asked. "Are they actually processing people?" The woman held up her hand to signal, "Don't talk." She was holding her breath and her eyes were trained at the corner of the large hall, at the top of the staircase. We turned, and saw a woman in a hijab extended her arms. Then she started yelling. The crowd erupted. I saw the family she was calling to. Risa saw a child running toward the mother in response. We didn't think there was a threat — or anyway, that she was a threat. But the crowd was one. This time, we had a second to think, but the logic of the stampede was irrefutable: We had to get out. Risa darted to the left of the two doors and was immediately pinned against the wall, pinched up against one of those long desks for filling out paperwork. A woman just in front of her had fallen to the floor and rolled herself into a ball. Risa was urging her to get up, but I don't think anyone else noticed her. The screaming was everywhere — more present, somehow, than the physical press of people. You can navigate bodies, even if it means barreling through them. Screams are like a tidal wave. When we got outside, there were those who dove right for the ground, those who ran to hide behind jet wheels and luggage carts, and those, like me, who just kept running, out toward the water.
Outside, this time, there were cops, rushing over with guns and taking up positions. They looked weird — not blue NYPD, but black-suited, as I remember it, with block text on the back of their bulletproof vests: FEDERAL BORDER POLICE. Like a lot of liberals, I'd spent the last couple of years more or less loathing the police, after a lifetime of feeling suspicious and uncomfortable; suddenly, I felt this desperate, yearning love for them. This is when you want the police; this is when you want to love the police. But we didn't get police, or at any rate the police we would've picked. Somewhere on Twitter, it was reported that the NYPD was "assisting" the Port Authority in responding. "Assisting"? I don't know anything about the Port Authority, really, aside from what you see casually in the news, but it seemed absurd that the people charged with protecting us were from a completely illogical organization formed decades ago out of political expedience to avoid the appearance of tax-payer funding and now operating mostly, to listen to the tabloids anyway, as a cronyism and patronage arm of the New York and New Jersey governors' offices. Where was my fucking billion-dollar NYPD anti-terror force?
Back toward the water, away from the crowd, we looked again at the phone, which was beginning to be more reassuring, a few people retweeting what looked like statements from the Port Authority that they could not confirm an attack had even happened. A few minutes later, there was a stronger statement that they could find no evidence of a shooting — no victims, no shells. But hours later, even after I'd already seen Deadspin's eye-rolling post that the whole fuss was caused by Usain Bolt, news outlets like the Daily Mail were promoting their stories with clickbait-y tweets like "JFK evacuated and local highways closed after reports of shooting." All the facts in that sentence are true, and were true then, long after the Port Authority made its statement. But they were also meant to deceive, and it was hard to know, at the time, whether to take them as refutations of the reassuring news or updates lagging behind the actual timeline — or made to lag, rather. And it is easy to see why law enforcement might be reluctant to share information in real time in a situation like this, since every piece of news is, at best, provisional, and likely to be distorted by panic as it passes through a crowd into something that sounds very much like someone shouting "fire." But in the absence of that information, and guidance, everything sounds like fire.
Or, it does for a while. After that second stampede, out on the tarmac, passengers moved in to comfort and inform each other, as best they could. Those who've lived through real disasters and those who study them often talk about the improvised communities of support that spring up in real time to help. But last night, in a false disaster, it took the complete passing of a threat before that variety of kindness sprang up. The Port Authority cops finally spread out into the crowd, armed with water bottles, but still not making any announcement or address. Passengers swapped stories with each other, and with the security guards, who all seemed pleased to be relieved of their duty to manage all of us, and able to offer insider wisdom like the insight that the airport would of course clean up and reopen soon because so much money was at stake — $10,000 a minute, one of them said, or was it per flight? I can't remember. We all expected the details to be clarified in tomorrow's papers — and the tragedies and the traumas, too. We hadn't really gotten used to the idea that nothing real had taken place, or that what had happened to us would be judged unreal by the rest of the world. The crowd was heaving with anxiety, even then, and Risa found her way to a young teenager who was still melting down. She had been traveling with her mother, but her mother hadn't been able to comfort her. She was 14, she said, when she finally caught her breath, from Norway, and on her first trip to New York. She was thinking about moving here, she said.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/the-terrifying-jfk-airport-shooting-that-wasnt.html


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Joost Begins Streaming Koi Koi Seven Anime
posted on 2009-02-02 19:35 EST by Egan Loo
1st English release for slapstick comedy about boy in all-girls school
The Joost video-streaming service has added the first five episodes of the Koi Koi Seven anime series over the past weekend. This would be the first time this anime has been officially available in English. Vuze, a rival streaming platform, had announced that Koi Koi Seven would be among the titles it would stream by the end of 2007, but the title never materialized on this other site.
The story in the 2005 anime (and the original 2003 manga by Hanaukyo Maid Team creator Morishige ) revolves around Tetsuro, a boy who just enrolled in an otherwise all-girls high school. He finds himself caught in the nearly daily battles among the student body with helicopters, bazookas, beam sabers, and more bizarre weapons. However, Koi Koi Seven, a school faction that includes a girl with a longtime crush on him, has vowed to protect him.
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Image © 2005 Morishige • Akita Shoten / Koi Koi 7 Production Committee

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LONDON (Reuters) - Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne spent the night in police custody after being arrested on suspicion of drugs offences, police sources said on Friday.
Gascoigne, 43, was detained on suspicion of possessing a class A substance following a police search at a property in North Tyneside, north-east England.
The former Tottenham Hotspur and Lazio player is waiting to be sentenced in a separate incident. He was warned just days ago that he faced jail after admitting drink driving.
"A 43-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession of a class A drug," Northumbria Police said in a statement.
"A second man, aged 43, was later arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of drugs.
Gascoigne, whose personal problems including mental illness have been widely covered in the media since his retirement from the game, also played for Newcastle United, Middlesbrough and Rangers.
He famously cried after being booked in the 1990 World Cup semi-final against West Germany, a punishment which would have ruled him out of the final if England had won a match they eventually lost in a penalty shootout.


Thanks to the unfolding catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, the public is finally seeing through BP's decade-long greenwashing campaign.
But those hundreds of millions of dollars worth of green branding can't fortify the company against the environmental and public relations catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. At least 210,000 gallons of crude are hemorrhaging into the Gulf each day after the April 20 explosion and subsequent collapse of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, a blast that killed 11 workers and injured 17 others. In a worst-case scenario for the spill, it could gush up to 6 million gallons per day. The spill is already well on its way to eclipsing the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which dumped 10.8 million gallons into Alaska's Prince William Sound and stands as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
The spill has wiped out years of ad spending for the company — but it has also highlighted how disingenuous much of that advertising was. Despite all BP has spent on rebranding, the company hasn't done nearly as much to move "beyond petroleum" as its campaign implies. In fact, BP has been turning away from investments in nonfossil energy, last year cutting investment in alternative sources from $1.4 billion to $1 billion. Weeks before the spill, BP announced that it was shuttering its solar manufacturing plant in Maryland. The company brought in $73 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2010, but only about $700 million of its business was alternative energy sources like wind and solar.
The company has also spent a lot of time and money convincing political leaders that offshore drilling is clean, safe, and environmentally friendly — while at the same time actually fighting against safety measures that might have prevented the horror in the Gulf. Last September, David Rainey, a vice president at BP America in charge of Gulf of Mexico exploration, appeared before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to assure legislators that new technology enables "safe and reliable production" of offshore oil and gas and that "any release from our operations is unacceptable" and "rare."
But the Deepwater rig lacked a remote-control shut-off switch, a backup system that would close the underwater well even if the rig above were destroyed, as happened two weeks ago. Norway and Brazil require this added precaution for rigs off their coasts, but it is voluntary in the United States. In 2003, the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service considered mandating the devices, but decided against it under pressure from oil companies that complained that the $500,000 devices were too burdensome.
As recently as last fall, the company pushed back against new mandatory safety and environmental planning procedures. In a letter to Minerals Management Service, the division of the Department of Interior that overseas offshore development, dated Sept. 14, 2009, BP head of Gulf of Mexico production Richard Morrison criticized proposed rules that would require rig operators to develop and implement a Safety and Environmental Management System as "extensive, prescriptive regulations."
"We believe industry's current safety and environmental statistics demonstrate that the voluntary programs … have been and continue to be very successful," he wrote. The proposed rules have not been implemented.
It's also clear that BP underestimated the possible risks of an accident on the rig. The plan filed with MMS in February 2009 for Deepwater Horizon stated that the company thought it "unlikely that an accidental surface or subsurface oil spill would occur from the proposed activities." And if something were to happen, BP wrote, because of the distance to shore and planned response, "no significant adverse impacts are expected." BP's worst-case scenario for an accident at the site was a leak of 162,000 barrels per day, which it said it could handle. MMS agreed, certifying at the time that it thought BP "has the capacity to respond, to the maximum extent practicable, to a worst-case discharge, or a substantial threat of such a discharge." But even MMS knew that there were substantial, well-known problems with the "blowout preventers" that were supposed to seal the well after the blast.
Now BP is scrambling to build domes to place over the gushing well, but that could take another six to eight days to deploy. The company didn't have the containment vessels on hand because it "seemed inconceivable" that the blowout preventer would fail, BP spokesman Steve Rinehart told the Associated Press. "I don't think anybody foresaw the circumstance that we're faced with now."
But in fact, there have been plenty of warning signs in recent years that the company has little regard for the safety of workers or the environment. A 2005 explosion at the company's Texas City refinery killed 15 workers and injured 170 others. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the company $21 million for safety failures that led to the explosion, at the time a record for the agency. The Justice Department fined BP an additional $50 million. Despite assurances from BP that it would take comprehensive action to protect employees after the incident, the company continued to fail in that regard — prompting OSHA to set another $87 million fine.
"Instead of living up to that commitment, BP has allowed hundreds of potential hazards to continue unabated," said Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis in announcing the new fine last December. The Department of Justice also fined BP $20 million for Clean Water Act violations stemming from a March 2006 incident in which 200,000 gallons of oil from a major oil pipeline spilled into Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. OSHA fined BP another $3 million just this March for safety violations at an Ohio refinery. The company has paid $485 million in fines in the United States alone in just the past five years.
This, of course, is small change for a company that posted $5.65 billion in profits in just the first quarter of this year. But it highlights both the company's lack of regard for worker and environmental safety, and the inadequacy of current enforcement mechanisms. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has pledged to "keep the boot on the neck" of BP to fulfill its responsibility in cleaning up the spill. But that boot should have been there a long time ago. It shouldn't take a spill of this magnitude to remind us that we are still far from "beyond petroleum." No amount of rebranding can change that.


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We fitted the MM520 with a Pixart 3660 optical sensor with an adjustable DPI up to 12000. That's a whole lot of DPI, and it ultimately means no lag, no stutter, and no fighting with your mouse in the thick of it. This is a mouse made to ensure your APMs don't get dragged down.
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Putin, Russia and The West
Vladimir Putin, after eight years as president of Russia and four more as prime minister, is stubbornly holding onto power. He has announced his intention to return as president and declared his party the winner in parliamentary elections that are widely seen as fraudulent. In Moscow 100,000 protesters have taken to the streets in the largest demonstrations since Putin took office.
Putin began his career as a KGB spy but when he became president, he made himself a valued ally of the West. How did he do it? And what made Washington and London turn against him?
This four-part series is made by Norma Percy and the team at Brook Lapping with a track record for getting behind closed doors with multi-award-winning series like The Death of Yugoslavia, The Second Russian Revolution, and Iran and the West. For the first time Putin's top colleagues – and the Western statesmen who eventually clashed with him – tell the inside story of one of the world's most powerful men.
In this episode, George W Bush meets Putin in June 2001 and declares he looked him in the eye and 'got a sense of his soul'. Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice recall their discomfort. But Rice, the only Bush adviser in the private talks, reveals that, three months before 9/11, Putin gave Bush a prophetic warning about Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Taliban. After 9/11, Putin describes how he convinced his shocked colleagues that Russia should align with the West. Sergei Ivanov, Russian's defence minister, tells how the Taliban secretly offered to join forces with Russia against America.
Democracy Threatens
Vladimir Putin, after eight years as president of Russia and four more as prime minister, is stubbornly holding on to power. He has announced his intention to return as president and declared his party the winner in parliamentary elections that are widely seen as fraudulent. In Moscow 100,000 protesters have taken to the streets in the largest demonstrations since Putin took office.
The second episode includes an extraordinary interview with former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, who was widely thought to be responsible for murder, corruption and sanctions-busting. He tells how, in the 2004 election, he set about getting his chosen successor elected president – with the help of Putin and his Kremlin advisers.
The opposition candidate, Victor Yushchenko, tells what it was like to be poisoned during the election campaign. It won him many voters and exit polls gave him a clear lead, but the Putin/Kuchma-backed candidate was still declared the winner. This result sparked the Orange Revolution.
Kremlin officials tell how they made sure that Putin would not face a similar revolution at home. It is claimed critics of Putin, including the British ambassador, were intimidated and some were even murdered. Tens of thousands of young Russians were mobilised to fight the threat of democracy.
The third episode tells how, in August 2008, Russia went to war with America's ally, Georgia. Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev and Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili reveal why each decided it was necessary to make war on the other.
Former American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and former secretary of defense Robert Gates describe what happened inside the National Security Council as President Bush considered whether to send in ground troops to save Georgia's capital. They reveal just how near to war the conflict brought the two nuclear super-powers.
The final episode of the series tells the inside story of two relationships: Barack Obama's campaign to win over Russia's new President Dmitry Medvedev, and Medvedev's own complex dealings with Vladimir Putin.
Obama became president determined to rid the world of nuclear weapons. To begin the process he needed Russian help. So he set out to reset relations with Russia. Ignoring Putin, whom many considered still in charge, he concentrated on Medvedev.
Top officials on both sides take viewers deep inside the negotiations. They describe how a phone call between the two young lawyer-presidents finally clinched the agreement – which cut their countries' nuclear arsenals in half.
But inside Russia, Medvedev had a harder time. He responded to the 2008 global financial crisis by setting out to make Russia into a modern democratic economy. He made little progress. He told Obama that Russia's most famous dissident, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, would get a fair trial. It did not happen.
In the end, Medvedev stepped aside and nominated Putin to be their party's presidential candidate for the 2012 election. Top Kremlin insiders, including Medvedev and Putin, tell how the deal was done – and how it set in train a process that made Vladimir Putin look vulnerable for the first time.
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HomeIran Human RightsStop executions in IranAppalling Record of Human Rights Violations in First Year of Raisi's Presidency
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Appalling Record of Human Rights Violations in First Year of Raisi's Presidency
521 Executions, Horrific Punishments of Eye Gauging, Hand Amputations, Public Executions, Escalation of Crackdown on Women
Ebrahim Raisi, known as the henchman of 1988, completed his first year of the presidency with a dark record of egregious and systematic violation of human rights. Under his tenure, the regime has unprecedentedly stepped up executions and suppression, to save the ruling theocracy from the explosion of people's anger and to delay its inevitable overthrow.
A year into his presidency, which began on August 3, at least 521 prisoners were executed, including 21 women and six minors at the time of committing the alleged offense. In the final 10 days of July, 33 prisoners were hanged and public executions resumed. At least seven prisoners were killed under torture in the past year. Most of the victims were accused of drug trafficking, whereas the IRGC and Hezbollah control the massive drug trade and its transit outside Iran.
In the same period, one prisoner died due to a hunger strike and several prisoners passed away because of the delay in their treatment. Several other prisoners, including a Sunni cleric, died under suspicious circumstances. A number of prisoners were executed after enduring years of imprisonment, in some cases up to 20 years.
Yesterday, August 2, state-run news agencies announced that the regime's Supreme Court had confirmed the horrific verdict of gouging out the eyes of a woman and two men. The victims were sent to Tehran for the verdict to be carried out. In June and July, regime henchmen amputated the fingers of two prisoners charged with petty theft.
Executions continue unabatedly Based on the secret documents obtained from within the regime's Judiciary, the NCRI Security and Counterterrorism Committee announced in its statement on May 16, 2022, that 5,370 prisoners were on death row.
Regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei described Raisi's appointment on August 3, 2021, as "a completely meaningful step," adding, "New people with new initiatives are entering the field." On the occasion of the Iranian New Year (March 2022), he also referred to Raisi's appointment as one of the "sweet developments" of the past Iranian year, which "revived hopes."
Raisi's one-year record reaffirms that Khamenei considers him the final solution in dealing with a crisis-riddled and explosive society. Khamenei's characterization of "the meaningful step," "new initiatives" and "sweets developments of last year" means even more executions and crackdowns to preserve the faltering regime.
Commenting on the one-year record of the clerical regime, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said that the continuing and intensifying bloodshed and crimes against humanity will not and cannot save the ruling theocracy from being overthrown. Quite the opposite, it will make the Iranian people and the Resistance more determined in their struggle for freedom.
Reiterating that engaging with a regime that egregiously violates all recognized international principles and standards of human rights is neither legitimate nor justified whatsoever, she urged the United Nations and all human rights advocates, as well as the European Union and its member states to condemn the crimes of this medieval regime and take immediate action to save the lives of thousands of death row prisoners. The dossier on human rights violations in Iran should be referred to the United Nations Security Council, and Khamenei, Raisi, and other regime leaders should be brought to justice for four decades of crimes against humanity, Mrs. Rajavi added.
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Q: Read Access Violation (this->headPtr was 0xCDCDCDCD) Remove (T &item) is supposed to remove the headPtr and store that "item value" in "item" and return true, otherwise return false if no elements are in the queue.  I get a "read access violation error" in this function.
Here is the class and function definitions:
class SharedQueue {
public:
    SharedQueue();
    ~SharedQueue();

    //Return true if the queue is empty
    bool IsEmpty() const;

    //Enqueue the next item at the tail of the queue.
    void Add(T value);

    //Dequeue the next queue element and store it in "item" variable.  The function returns false if the queue is empty and no item can be retrieved.
    bool Remove(T &item);
    void Print();
private:
    struct QueueItem {
        T item;
        QueueItem *next;
    };
    //Fill in the The private data members.
    QueueItem *headPtr;
    QueueItem *tailPtr;
};

template <typename T> SharedQueue<T>::SharedQueue() {
    headPtr = NULL;
    tailPtr = NULL;
}

template <typename T>SharedQueue<T>::~SharedQueue() {
    QueueItem *temp;
    while (headPtr != NULL) {
        temp = headPtr;
        headPtr = headPtr->next;
        delete temp;
    }
}

template <typename T> bool SharedQueue<T>::IsEmpty() const {
    if (headPtr == NULL && tailPtr == NULL) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

template <typename T> void SharedQueue<T>::Add(T aValue) {
    if (headPtr == NULL) {
        QueueItem *newItem = new QueueItem;
        newItem->item = aValue;
        tailPtr = headPtr = newItem;
    }
    else {
        QueueItem *newItem = new QueueItem;
        newItem->item = aValue;
        tailPtr->next = newItem;
        tailPtr = tailPtr->next;
    }
}

template <typename T> bool SharedQueue<T>::Remove(T &item) {
    if (headPtr == NULL) {
        return false;
    }
    else {
        QueueItem temp = *headPtr;
        item = headPtr->item;
        delete headPtr;
        headPtr = temp.next;
        return true;
    }
}

template <typename T> void SharedQueue<T>::Print() {
    QueueItem *temp = headPtr;
    while (temp != NULL) {
        std::cout << temp->item << "\n";
        temp = temp->next;
    }
}

A: When you add an item to a non-empty SharedQueue<T>:
    QueueItem *newItem = new QueueItem;
    newItem->item = aValue;
    tailPtr->next = newItem;
    tailPtr = tailPtr->next;

You never set the newItem->next = NULL.
Your private struct QueueItem can (and maybe should) have its own constructor(s)/destructor to help ensure that things like this are set consistently.

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Q: python Fetch existing variables into a list I've used locals() function and created some variables. Now I need to fetch all the variables created into a list, how should I do?
example:
column_list=[x for x in range(100)]

for i,j in enumerate(column_list):
    locals()['v'+str(i)]=pd.DataFrame(['Y','N'],columns=[j])

Now, I have variables, v0 ~ v99, each of which is an independent data frame.
I need to fetch all the variables into a variable_list
So I can use for loop on all the variables:
variable_list -> [v0,v1,v2,v3,v4.v5.......]

A: Level up the abstraction.  Writing to locals() is not reliable, and is advised against in the documentation.
You should change the code where it creates sequential local variables named v0, v1, ... v99 so that appends into one list named v in the first place.
Now, your "variable_list" is just v itself and the values in the list are accessible v[0], v[1], ... v[99].


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Dating all the way back to the 1920s, the Jones Act has provided federal safeguards for a wide range of maritime laborers injured on the job. The statute recognizes the inherent dangers of this type of work and is designed to compensate seamen for lost wages and health care expenses incurred as a result of harm sustained.
If you are interested in claiming benefits following an incident on a ship, oil rig, or another eligible vessel, a Mount Pleasant Jones Act lawyer can help you navigate what can sometimes be a confusing, complicated process. An experienced injury attorney in Mount Pleasant can build a case to help maximize any potential damages you may be owed. En Español.
Facts About the Jones Act
At its heart, 46 USC § 883, commonly referred to as the Jones Act, establishes a framework for which seamen are able to claim compensation for injuries suffered or illnesses acquired while working aboard vessels on navigable waterways.
Maritime laborers are entitled to receive "maintenance and cure," meaning that the employer must provide daily compensation and pay the cost of medical care necessitated by the sailor's condition.
It is also possible for workers to sue for damages if ship owner or crew negligence is alleged or if the vessel at issue is suspected to have been "unseaworthy." Such damages can be pursued by an experienced Mount Pleasant Jones Act attorney.
Eligibility for Filing a Claim
Seafaring workers eligible for compensation pursuant to a Jones Act Claim must spend no less than 30% working in and on a qualifying vessel, whether it operates on the open seas or on inland rivers and lakes.
The ship, rig, or other watercraft at issue is required to have been in navigation at the time the harm was sustained, though it is possible for those tied up at the dock or in a mooring to qualify, provided they were capable of navigation at the time. Claims of this nature are routinely filed by employees working on vessels that include:
Offshore oil rigs
Cargo ships
To better understand any other vessels that may be covered, an individual should contact a Mount Pleasant Jones Act attorney as soon as possible.
Negligence Standards
For a seaman to recover compensation pursuant to the Jones Act, it is necessary to establish that negligence was responsible for the harm alleged.
Decades of precedent have ensured that the bar in terms of proving negligence on the part of ship operators and related parties is relatively low, making it easier than many might expect to obtain much-needed financial resources after an accident.
Even so, a claimant will need to show that an actor in a position of authority on the vessel did something that an otherwise reasonable personal would not have done, that an action was not taken which reasonably should have been, or that a reasonable precaution against injuries to others was neglected.
Forced amounts of excessive overtime, failure to properly train workers, and failure to provide necessary supervision can also be deemed negligence for the purposes of evaluating a Jones Act claim. Such processes can be best explained by an experienced Mount Pleasant Jones Act attorney.
Assessing Seaworthiness
A shipowner or operator has an obligation to provide workers with a safe and properly maintained vessel, and a failure to do so also creates potential liability under the Jones Act. Some important indicators of unseaworthiness include:
Lack of regular inspection schedule
Outdated equipment
Worn steps and missing handrails
Cluttered or unstable deck areas
Missing safety gear
Oily and flooded decking surfaces
Insufficient crew members for assigned tasks
Improperly trained or unqualified crew
Compensation Available for Injured Seamen
Those contemplating a claim under the Jones Act may be entitled to receive significant compensation for the harm they have experienced while employed on a qualifying vessel. It is often possible for a skilled Jones Act attorney in Mt Pleasant to aid in the recovery of payments for things such as lost wages, reduced earning potential, medical bills, physical pain, emotional distress and more.
As is the case with all personal injury matters, a thorough evaluation by an experienced legal practitioner is the best place to begin the quest for fairness and accountability.
Contacting a Jones Act Attorney
The realm of law encompassed by the Jones Act can be extremely complex. Therefore, to make sure you achieve compliance with all essential procedural requirements, those harmed on the open waters are well-advised to seek the counsel of a Mount Pleasant Jones Act lawyer as soon as possible after their injury or illness becomes apparent.
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Q: Can we technically un-blur images? Since there is an algorithm to blur images, so that part of it cannot be recognised, can we reverse the algorithm and unblur part of than image?
Is there a program that already does that, is that even possible, even in a near future?

A: Reversing image manipulation depends on how something has been manipulated.
Since the image is a representation of the object and we only have the visual data in that image, we can't "unblur" it, since we don't have the data.
Imagine a blurred image (like a pixelated faced) is similar to an email without all of the characters, we wouldn't be able to take the characters that we do have available to make up the exact words of the original email.
There may be ways to make a rough appropriation what the image may be, but they'll only ever be approximations, nothing like Action film "enhance!" representation of image manipulation.
Update: obligatory link to a page about the "swirled face" http://sciencenotes.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/what-computers-can-swirl-computers-can-unswirl/

A: Deconvolution (also see here and here) can partially deblur a photo. There is plenty of software out there that implements it, and this was even a fairly basic excersise in an image processing class I took in College. It's not possible to completely reverse the blurring, since it is lossy, but a lot of information can be restored (also see here (PDF)).
A motion blurred photo will be easier to restore than something that's simply out of focus, though both can be restored to a degree.

A: In the article Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea the authors describe an method of 'unblurring' numbers and text.
The process is similar to a dictionary attack: you make blurred images (of similar pattern) from characters/numbers and then match these with the blur.

A: No, you cannot reverse the algorithm.
At some level, most blur filters work by summing and averaging over pixel values. If you add two pixel values and replace each number with the average of both, you can not later determine which values you had originally.
pixel1 = 3
pixel2 = 5

blurredPixel = (pixel1 + pixel2) / 2 = 4

newPixel1 = blurredPixel = 4
newPixel2 = blurredPixel = 4

If you only have newPixel 1 and 2, you cannot find out if the original pixels where 3 and 5, 1 and 7 or any other possible combination.

A: No, because blurring is like lossy compression: it removes information which cannot be recovered afterwords.

A: If the convolution function is continuous then it should be possible. But since we pass through it to a band limited filter, the function cannot be continuous, some information is lost. But you can still find a close approximation.


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The United States has reportedly drawn up a preliminary list of facilities in Syria that could be targeted in case of a false flag chemical weapons attack in the war-torn country.
Several US officials told CNN on Friday that American intelligence and military targeting experts had already compiled the list, but a decision to launch the strike has not been made.
One of the officials said that the US military "could respond very quickly" to an alleged gas attack in Syria and that the initial targeting data would give the Pentagon a head start if President Donald Trump orders assault.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States views the Syrian government military assault on terrorist-held Idlib as an escalation of the Syrian conflict.
The Syrian province of Idlib and surrounding areas are the last major enclave held by terrorists.
"The US sees this as an escalation of an already dangerous conflict," Pompeo said in a post on Twitter in which he also blasted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for defending the operation.
Damascus and Moscow have warned that the US, along with Britain and France, is gearing up for a new military attack against Syria as the army prepares for a liberation operation in Idlib.
Syria and Russia also obtained evidence revealing yet another plot by Takfiri terrorists to carry out a chemical attack in Idlib and pin the blame on Damascus with the aim of justifying an ensuing Western act of aggression.
On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Western states not to "play with fire" in Idlib.
"It's well known that the progress of Syrian resolution, humanitarian solutions and fight against terrorism is not to everyone's liking," he said.
The Pentagon claimed in response that Moscow "is seeking to plant false lies about the use of chemical weapons" in Syria.
Elsewhere in their remarks, American officials told CNN that the Russians may have engaged in the buildup of naval warships ahead of a possible US strike.
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Syria's deputy foreign minister on Friday stressed that his country is determined to end the presence of terror outfits in Idlib, noting that certain Western countries continue to support militants through circulating "lies" on the use of chemical weapons.
In an interview with the Syrian TV, Faisal Mekdad censured a media misleading campaign regarding Syria's planned counter-terrorism operation in Idlib.
"If the Western forces take any reckless step, Syria will retaliate and will be not be subjugated and it will practice its self-defense right which is guaranteed by all the international laws," he said.
Mikdad further reiterated that terrorists are the ones who use chemical weapons in Syria.


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Road gantry cranes were indispensable for maintaining Tiger and Panther heavy tanks and Elefant tank hunter near the front line. An exceptional use for the gantry crane was from 1944 onward with the Division z.V. for loading and unloading of delivered A4 (V2) rockets onto 'Vidalwagen' and 'Meillerwagen' launch trailers. This book documents the crane's development history and includes patent applications, descriptions of its use in action with the Panzer-Werkstattkompanien, engineering units and Division z.V. With drawings and close-up pictures, including photos showing the removal and replacement of a Panzer turret, plus a comparison of 15t and 16t Strabokran. Also included for modellers a detailed set of drawings of all variants in 1/35 scale.
This second volume covers Weapon Carriers, vehicles which didn't go into mass production and general war service of Half-Tracks. Half-Tracks were used by the US Army and USMC, as well as the other major Allies in all theaters and there are extensive descriptions and illustrations of such operations. The book also covers post war service in the Middle East and Korea. Camouflage and markings are shown in 12 colour plates and available scale models and accessories are listed. 34 pages of 3D colour graphics and colour photographs of museum exhibits and currently operational, restored vehicles round of this impressive volume.
Russian Military Intervention in Syria, 2015-2017. In August 2015, the government of the Russian Federation embarked its military forces on an intervention in Syria. Their performance in this war was a clear demonstration of advanced technology, improved training and fearsome firepower, but the operation only experienced limited success and exposed a number of weaknesses. Illustrated by over 130 photographs, maps and 21 colour profiles, 'Moscow's Game of Poker' provides a clear outline of the participants in this complex conflict, and the areas it impacts. The story is told in combination with an insight into the similar campaign run by what is left of the Syrian Arab Air Force.
Ethiopia is a military powerhouse of the African continent. Currently involved in the war in neighbouring Somalia, Ethiopia was also involved in half a dozen of other armed conflicts during the last 60 years. One of the most significant was the Eritrean War of Independence. Fought 1961-1991, this was one of Africa's biggest armed conflicts , and it included a wide spectrum of operations, from classic counter-insurgency (COIN) to conventional warfare. This second volume covers the military operations that led to the fall of the Derg government in Ethiopia of 1991, the period of Eritrean military build-up, and concludes with the first detailed account of the so-called Badme War, fought between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 1998-2001. The book contains over 100 contemporary photographs, maps and colour profiles.
From the publishers of EuroModelismo comes this volume dealing with the sculpting, detailing and painting figure models. World renowned figure sculptor and painter Mike Blank provides guidance on materials, tools, posing, sculpting and converting figures, and the finer points of rendering cloth and mail armor. Also covers vignettes and dioramas. The book is entirely in colour and includes a full figure gallery. It has chapters on: Body Language, Expressions and Character; Ring Mail, Creases and Folds; Sculpting a Figure; Converting and Sculpting a 90mm mounted figure; Vignettes and Dioramas.


QikServe, which provides technology to the hospitality industry allowing customers to order and pay directly by mobile phone, has announced a deal with HMSHost International, a leading provider of food and beverage services to travelers at over 100 airport locations worldwide.
QikServes' Waiter in your Pocket app has begun rollout at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol following a successful pilot scheme at the end of 2014.
In partnership with HMSHost, QikServe is extending its initial at table service to include order ahead functionality and, ultimately, a comprehensive customer engagement and loyalty scheme. Passengers will be able to order ahead while going through security, en route to their gates or when disembarking flights.
The QikServe app integrates with Oracle Hospitality's point of sale (POS) system, meaning that orders appear on the till as if entered by a waiter.
Dennis Hoogreef, senior director IT and facilities, HMSHost International, said, "At HMSHost, we believe in creating an innovative environment with integrated solutions for our customers.


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Beautiful secrets of Paris best discovered on foot
01 July 2013 - 11:05 By Sapa-dpa
The Eiffel tower in Paris. File photo.
Image: Gallo Images/Thinkstock
Of course it is possible to take the Metro from the Eiffel Tower to Montmartre but Paris is a wonderful city to explore on foot, taking in the city's numerous landmarks and stopping in its countless cafes and boulevard shops along the way.
While it is possible to cross the entire city in only a few hours, visitors to the City of Light are spoilt for choice when it comes to possible itineraries so the 10 routes listed below take in only some of what Paris has to offer.
- Visitors interested in discovering the city's historical centre should begin with a stroll on the two River Seine islands. The gothic masterpiece Notre Dame is located on the Ile-de-la-Cite while the neighbouring Saint-Louis offers one of the city's best picnic areas with views of the riverbank and stunning cathedral.
- The Marais is now probably best known for its thriving gay scene, crowded bars, trendy shops and restaurants. However, by walking through the area visitors can also discover lots of traces of Jewish life, including a synagogue with its Art Nouveau facade, kosher food stores and memorials to Jewish schoolchildren deported during World War II.
- Comfortable footwear is essential for the steep walk up to Montmartre but views from the Basilica of Sacre-Coeur on the crest of the hill makes the exertion worthwhile. The only downside is the huge number of fellow tourists, pushy souvenir sellers and street artists. The western part of the hill with its small houses and facades overgrown with plants is an infinitely more pleasant experience.
- Today almost nothing remains of the Bastille that was stormed by French revolutionaries in 1789 but the area is well worth a visit if only to explore the many beautiful courtyards and buildings which previously primarily housed the city's carpenters and joiners. The quarter is also home to the Marche d'Aligre, one of the most colourful and lively vegetable markets in Paris.
- The left bank of the Seine is a good place to look for traces of the Roman presence in Paris, such as the thermal baths near Cluny Museum and the amphitheatre where young boys now play football. A small diversion to the Pantheon, which has served both as a church and a temple of heroes, is also worthwhile.
- Thanks to its huge immigrant population, Paris has the advantage of offering visitors the chance to experience a tapestry of cultural life. The Tamil quarter near the Gare du Nord is full of places selling exotic herbs and spices, as well as shops offering traditional sari cloth and colourful statues of deities. You only have to stroll a couple of streets further before arriving in a predominantly African area.
- In good weather, a walk along the Canal Saint-Martin followed by a picnic in the shade of the stately plane trees is hard to beat. There are also numerous pleasant cafes and shops along the canal bank and in the small side-streets nearby.
- Visitors looking for style should head for the Boulevard Saint-Germain, where well-dressed Parisian women in high heels and men wearing blazers like to congregate.
- The French liked to make fun of former President Nicolas Sarkozy's love for the high life. A walk around the Elysee Palace, the official presidential residence, and along Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore gives visitors sight of some the finest boutiques the city has to offer.
- Villa Mouzaia is one of the lesser known but more interesting Parisian quarters with its small houses and overgrown front gardens. The Parc Buttes Chaumont is nearby where tired walkers can relax with a glass of chilled white wine and watch the world go by from the terrace of the Cafe Rosa Bonheur.