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"A man came from nowhere. He tried to grab an old man, the florist owner, and he was pulling him and yelling at him. I said, 'What the f*** do you want?' and he said, 'I just want to die'," Mr Yin told news.com.au. |
"I took off my bag and yelled at him, I tried to get him to stop." |
Mr Yin said he called police, who arrived within five minutes. That's when he says the situation escalated. |
"The man, I think he was holding scissors and trying to grab police and the police have shot him. Three or four gun shots. |
"I was right there and I tried to escape the gunfire. I saw him go down. I think he got hit all over the body and he went down straight away." |
SBS reporter Andrea Booth at the scene said witnesses described the man saying "shoot me" to police and holding scissors in his hand. Video shows police attempting to treat the victim. |
Another witness, Serena Whelan, said she heard three loud bangs from the park across the road around 6.20pm. |
CJs Central shop owner Sami Aryal also witnessed the incident. |
"I was just about to go to the toilet, and I saw three to four police officers holding a gun. They were saying something to the man like 'put your hands down'," he told The Daily Telegraph. |
"And then after 20 seconds, the man came out of the flower shop and he was shot about three times." |
A worker at a nearby store described hearing screams before the shots. |
"I heard screaming. I heard 'put it down, put it down'. and then there were three or four gunshots," he said. |
The area has been cordoned off and emergency services remain on scene. |
Police are urging anyone with information in relation to this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page. |
Courtney Lawes, the England and Northampton lock, has become the third player from Martin Johnson's squad to be fined for wearing a branded gumshield at the World Cup. |
Lawes follows Manu Tuilagi and England captain Lewis Moody in being sanctioned for a breach of the tournament's strict commercial regulations. |
Tuilagi incurred a £4,800 fine after the victory over Georgia and the England squad were warned about increased fines for any future breaches. |
As a result, it is understood that Moody and Lawes were fined double the amount. |
A Rugby Football Union spokesman said the breaches were oversights and not intentional. |
The news comes three days after the England team returned home following their elimination from the tournament that was overshadowed by players' off-field antics and on-field misdemeanours. |
Delon Armitage and Courtney Lawes were both banned for on-field transgressions and two assistant coaches were suspended for a match for switching the balls used during a game. |
James Haskell, Chris Ashton, Dylan Hartley were all forced to apologise for making lewd comments to a female hotel employer in Dunedin. |
Mike Tindall was involved in dwarf-throwing and had a liaison with an ex-girlfriend on a night out after England's opening victory against Argentina. |
Tuilagi, again, found himself in hot water following England's quarter-final exit when he was detained by Auckland police after diving off a ferry on the city's waterfront. |
Wayne Rooney said the situation at Old Trafford was similar to when Louis van Gaal was at the helm. |
Wayne Rooney has called on Manchester United's players to stand up and be counted, saying that manager Jose Mourinho is an easy target for the club's troubles. United battled back from two goals down to beat Newcastle 3-2 at the weekend but are languishing in eighth place in the Premier League, seven points off top spo... |
But former United captain Rooney, who now plays for DC. United in Major League Soccer (MLS), said the players had to take some responsibility for the situation. |
"It's tough (at United), it has been a tough situation," he said in comments reported by Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper. |
"The players, the manager, it has been a tough start to the season. I know Jose is getting a load of stick but I said a few weeks ago, the players have to stand up. They have to be counted and they have to be better. |
"The manager can do so much but then it is down to the players on the pitch to produce, and probably collectively. It (the poor run) is a bit of everything coming together but Jose is an easy target. Some of the players have to be better." |
Former England forward said the situation at Old Trafford was similar to when Louis van Gaal was at the helm. |
"He took a lot of stick but behind closed doors, I said to the players 'we have to be doing better'. Personally, I think he (Van Gaal) set us up brilliantly but we didn't produce on the pitch, so I am sure that is getting said behind the scenes." |
Rooney now has nine goals in 16 matches since signing for D.C. United from Everton in June. |
The 32-year-old striker has played a part in a late-season surge that has left United two points behind Montreal for the sixth and final Eastern Conference playoff berth with two games in hand. |
Concerns have been raised in Parliament about the ‘prevalent use of lethal highs’ at HMP Northumberland, with fears that they are leading to increased violence at the jail. |
Berwick MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan spoke about the issue in the House of Commons on Monday. It came just days after the Gazette reported numerous concerns from prison staff at the Sodexo-run jail, which included worries over security and staffing levels. |
Last week, Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery met the prison’s director, Tony Simpson, and Mr Selous to raise constituents’ concerns. Afterwards, Mr Lavery said: “HMP Northumberland is a powderkeg prison. The incidents and problems raised with me involve the availability of drugs and alcohol and prisoners having access to mobile p... |
Managing PCs has always been painful, but the job has gotten considerably nastier thanks to an endless parade of application upgrades, operating system patches, and anti-threat updates. Even with network-based installation and patch management tools to ease the burden, IT spends far too much time at the desktop itself,... |
The promise of desktop virtualization technology is to centralize applications at the datacenter to make them easier to manage and provision -- stretching hardware resources and keeping nagging software conflicts to a minimum in the bargain. In some cases, the same technology helps accomplish all three, bringing greate... |
At first blush, desktop virtualization sounds a lot like terminal services such as those provided by Citrix Systems, where servers run the applications and give users remote access. All the user's terminal or PC does is present the updated screen display and permit input via keyboard and mouse. |
Desktop virtualization, on the other hand, is a new way of delivering the individual PC environment that white-collar workers demand and love. In essence, servers host an entire desktop environment specific to each user. |
The early versions of desktop virtualization were blade servers such as those offered by ClearCube Technology and IBM that simply moved the processing guts of a PC to the datacenter and left the input and display at the user's desk. But the latest versions use the PC at the user's desk for much of the processing. Dubbe... |
A few providers go beyond desktop streaming to application streaming, where IT can send out the runtime cache for individual apps as needed. This reduces the number of unique user images to maintain and provides better insight into which application licenses are really needed. |
The greatest benefit of desktop virtualization is the ability to provision PCs and other client devices with software from a central location. IT can manage a large number of enterprise clients from the datacenter, rather than at each user's desk, reducing on-site support and increasing control of application and patch... |
At its simplest, virtualization on the application server side reduces hardware costs by letting one server provision multiple desktop clients, rather than having one server per desktop client, says John Humphreys, an IDC analyst. And virtualization also adds the ability to move desktop environments and hosted applicat... |
Citrix, ClearCube, and Wyse Technology now support the use of VMware and Microsoft virtual machines on blades and other application servers. VMware also offers VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software), which makes server-hosted virtual machines accessible to users through the RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). |
At Duncan Regional Hospital in Duncan, Oklahoma, the number of desktops more than doubled to about 500 in the past two years. Rather than lobby for money to hire more desktop support techs, CIO Roger Neal decided to deploy ClearCube thin clients and keep the physical management in a central location -- and get more fro... |
Virtualization at the application host server can make thin clients more efficient to deploy, but many organizations are wedded to having real PCs at users' disposal despite the support costs. Desktop streaming is emerging as one of the most efficient ways to support this model without incurring the usual bloated deskt... |
A growing number of vendors -- including Ardence, Propero, Stream Theory and Wyse -- offer desktop streaming software that provisions the entire desktop environment from a server to a desktop PC (or thin client). |
Altiris, AppStream, and Microsoft (through its recent acquisition of Softricity) have pushed the concept to the next level, streaming applications rather then a complete desktop environment. This allows greater flexibility in what is provisioned, because IT can create a basic operating system image and then individual ... |
With both desktop and application streaming, the provisioned operating system and applications use the client's local resources, without the overhead of permanent installation on the client. For example, financial services firm Russell Investments Group saw application deployment shrink from four weeks to 1.5 weeks aft... |
Typically, a set of stub services is transferred to the local cache at connection time, and other resources are streamed as needed. "When you run an application, you need only 15 to 20 percent to start using it, so it can be network-delivered," says David Grescher, director of marketing for SoftGrid at Microsoft. |
Streaming does delay initial application access, acknowledges Bill Washburn, operations analyst at California State University at San Marcos, which uses Altiris' technology. "But once the application is installed, people say it's the best they've ever seen it run," he says. |
Russell Investments' Nelson says that although desktop and application streaming should theoretically use more network resources than terminal services do, that's not always the case. For example, printing and working with large files can swamp the network in a traditional terminal services architecture. Desktop and ap... |
The latest proposed expansion of Medicare benefits could be a welcome health insurance option to early retirees who leave employment or have been forced out of their jobs before the age of 65. |
Democratic U.S. Senators unveiled the latest version of Medicare expansion Wednesday, calling it the “Medicare at 50 Act,” which would allow people between the ages of 50 and 64 the option of buying into Medicare. Introduced by Sens. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the... |
This time, the Democratic senators seem more focused on a block of Americans that can gain access to coverage under the Affordable Care Act and its protections for those with pre-existing conditions, but are often hit hard by premium increases. Some in their 50s and early 60s who didn’t get the ACA's subsidies got sock... |
People approaching age 65 but not eligible for ACA subsidies face the biggest affordability problems in the individual insurance market. How much a Medicare buy-in would help them depends (as always) on the details. |
“Millions of Americans who are approaching retirement or are being forced to retire early due to layoffs or mandatory retirement face increasing health care needs and rising costs,” the Senators said in their announcement of the legislation unveiled Wednesday. |
The targeting of early retirees and people who lose employer coverage would seem to address a concern of the business community and health insurance companies that see Medicare expansions like “single payer” potentially replacing the existing commercial system and diminishing the private insurer’s role in administering... |
But health insurance companies are taking a cautious approach to cheering any Medicare expansion even if it includes a “buy in” for Medicare Advantage, the increasingly popular coverage that private insurers administer for more than 20 million people 65 years old and over. |
“This is a slippery slope to government-run health care for every American,” AHIP’s executive vice president of public affairs and strategic initiatives, David Merritt, said. AHIP represents insurers that sell Medicare Advantage including Anthem, Centene, Cigna and WellCare Health Plans as well as an array of Blue Cros... |
AHIP bemoaned "Medicare at 50" as a “one size fits all” plan, but it allows people to buy private Medicare Advantage coverage their member insurers sell. |
The Medicare at 50 legislation includes support of several Democratic Senators running for President. Senators listed as co-sponsors of Medicare At 50 are: Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Kamala Harris of California and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. |
“It will help strengthen Medicare, lower costs, and improve care for millions of people,” Stabenow said. |
It is, in a way, almost appropriate that the final days of the struggle for the Democratic nomination have been marked by yet another fake Clinton scandal — the latest in a long line that goes all the way back to Whitewater. |
This one, in case you missed it, involved an interview Hillary Clinton gave the editorial board of South Dakota’s Argus Leader, in which she tried to make a case for her continuing campaign by pointing out that nomination fights have often gone on into the summer. As one of her illustrations, she mentioned that Bobby K... |
It wasn’t the best example to use, but it’s absurd to suggest, as some Obama supporters immediately did, that Mrs. Clinton was making some kind of dark hint about Barack Obama’s future. |
But then, it was equally absurd to portray Mrs. Clinton’s assertion that it took L.B.J.’s political skills to turn Martin Luther King’s vision into legislation as an example of politicizing race. Yet the claim that Mrs. Clinton was playing the race card, which was promoted by some Obama supporters as well as in a memo ... |
Why does all this matter? Not for the nomination: Mr. Obama will be the Democratic nominee. But he has a problem: many grass-roots Clinton supporters feel that she has received unfair, even grotesque treatment. And the lingering bitterness from the primary campaign could cost Mr. Obama the White House. |
To the extent that the general election is about the issues, Mr. Obama should have no trouble winning over former Clinton supporters, especially the white working-class voters he lost in the primaries. His health care plan is seriously deficient, but he will nonetheless be running on a far more worker-friendly platform... |
Indeed, John McCain has shed whatever maverick tendencies he may once have had, and become almost a caricature conservative — an advocate of lower taxes for the rich and corporations, a privatizer and shredder of the safety net. |
But elections always involve emotions as well as issues, and there are some ominous signs in the polling data. |
In Florida, in particular, the rolling estimate produced by the professionals at Pollster.com shows Mr. McCain running substantially ahead of Mr. Obama, even as he runs significantly behind Mrs. Clinton. Ohio also looks problematic, and Pennsylvania looks closer than it should. It’s true that head-to-head polls five mo... |
The point is that Mr. Obama may need those disgruntled Clinton supporters, lest he manage to lose in what ought to be a banner Democratic year. |
So what should Mr. Obama and his supporters do? |
Most immediately, they should realize that the continuing demonization of Mrs. Clinton serves nobody except Mr. McCain. One more trumped-up scandal won’t persuade the millions of voters who stuck with Mrs. Clinton despite incessant attacks on her character that she really was evil all along. But it might incline a few ... |
Nor should Obama supporters dismiss Mrs. Clinton’s strength as a purely Appalachian phenomenon, with the implication that Clinton voters are just a bunch of hicks. |
Mrs. Clinton needs to do her part: she needs to be careful not to act as a spoiler during what’s left of the primary, she needs to bow out gracefully if, as seems almost certain, Mr. Obama receives the nod, and she needs to campaign strongly for the nominee once the convention is over. She has said she’ll do that, and ... |
But mainly it’s up to Mr. Obama to deliver the unity he has always promised — starting with his own party. |
One thing to do would be to make a gesture of respect for Democrats who voted in good faith by recognizing Florida’s primary votes — which at this point wouldn’t change the outcome of the nomination fight. |
The only reason I can see for Obama supporters to oppose seating Florida is that it might let Mrs. Clinton claim that she received a majority of the popular vote. But which is more important — denying Mrs. Clinton bragging rights, or possibly forfeiting the general election? |
What about offering Mrs. Clinton the vice presidency? If I were Mr. Obama, I’d do it. Adding Mrs. Clinton to the ticket — or at least making the offer — might help heal the wounds of an ugly primary fight. |
Here’s the point: the nightmare Mr. Obama and his supporters should fear is that in an election year in which everything favors the Democrats, he will nonetheless manage to lose. He needs to do everything he can to make sure that doesn’t happen. |
Let's Play Stump the Army Wife: What Would You Say? |
Over the weekend, I was in and out of airports. I began talking to a lady about why I was heading to Las Vegas (for a military conference) and explained that I'm an Army wife. She asked me a question that shouldn't have stumped me, but it did. |
Oh, what's it like to be an Army wife? |
I always seem to have these types of conversations in airports... I understand the reason this question was asked. It really means, "What's it like to be an Army wife during war time?" |
I've had this question before. I'm sure many of you have, too. I can't remember how I answered, but I don't recall having a tough time answering. But on this occasion, I sort of stammered and tried to come up with a coherent answer. One that would sum it up just perfectly. Do I go into the wait and worry aspect of bein... |
Do I say it's really interesting and a lot of fun? Because it is, for me. I've been able to live and travel all over the country, meet new people and experience new cultures. But then, that doesn't really give a complete and total picture of life as an Army wife either, does it? |
Hum, I wondered. How do I quickly articulate what I want to articulate? And what is it exactly that I want to articulate? All of these thoughts ran through my head within seconds of the question. I found it difficult to figure out what to say to someone who has no experience with military culture. |
After we separated, I thought about our conversation and I was less than happy with my answer. You know what I should have said? |
It's the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. But, for me, the highs have always overshadowed the lows. |
Kind of vague, but that's how I see it, and I've said it a million times, but it just didn't occur to me on this occasion. I was wrapped up in making sure I didn't over-hype or under-hype military life. I couldn't see the forest for the trees. |
How odd that a question as basic as that left me speechless and worried about giving the "right" answer, especially when there is no right answer, just an answer that describes how I feel about being an Army wife. |
The entire sports-loving population of the United States experienced a wide range of emotions on Sunday night when Portugal scored a last-minute goal in the World Cup match against the United States. |
Chants of "U-S-A! U-S-A!" shifted to shouts of horror, dismay and the inevitable curse word (or two, or five). |
Now we can watch it over and over, reliving the moment when Americans' faces fell. |
To forget the heartbreaking final seconds, watch Americans reacting to the first U.S. goal at Grant Park in Chicago. Unfortunately, their excitement wouldn't last. |
As with many sporting events, fans unleashed their excitement and frustrations on Twitter. The map below shows the explosion of geotagged tweets mentioning the World Cup posted during the match. |
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