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Shortly before 0200hrs on Friday, 29 March, Islington officers on routine patrol in a police vehicle became suspicious of a car that appeared to make off at speed when passed in the opposite direction by police.
After several minutes searching for the Audi, the officers sighted it several hundred metres away and they sought to catch up.
The Audi was driven through a red light and a short time later it clipped a white van and subsequently collided with a bridge on Seven Sisters Road near to the junction with St Ann's Road in Haringey.
Two male passengers in the Audi, both believed to be aged in their late 20s or early 30s, were seriously injured.
Officers gave CPR prior to the arrival of ambulances, but both were pronounced dead at the scene. Enquiries continue to establish the identity of the two men.
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I used to think that no one really believes in God because if people did, as they claimed, wouldn’t they be in a perpetual stupor, stunned by the existence of such a magical force? However, I don’t hold that view anymore after observing how people have responded to recent claims of extraordinary scientific discoveries ...
Why don’t people faint and the traffic stop when scientists announce that they have proof that gravity alters time, that they now know where mass comes from, or that they have conclusive evidence of the existence of black holes—objects so dense that a whole star is compressed into a blob just a few hundred metres acros...
The last pronouncement, about visual evidence of the black hole phenomenon, occurred on Wednesday. A black hole is now a scientific truth because of three main reasons: One, people with great authority, who have monopoly over a narrow field of study, have said so after an arcane process that is widely believed to be ve...
Theoretical physics thus also demonstrates qualities of medieval religion. In a world where everything has become political and every claim is questioned, many branches of science have not survived. But theoretical physics leaps from claim to claim with the ease of an ancient religion at its peak.
What I enjoy the most about science as a lay person is that it is a simulation of religion for me. I have no choice but to accept what is told to me by an authority who has the right halo. In every other sphere of knowledge, my reading is punctuated by constant arguments with ideas. But in the presence of scientific kn...
Twenty-four hours after the news broke about the black hole in the heart of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy, it was already blasphemous to ask, “But do black holes really exist?"
The idea of the black hole emerges from Albert Einstein’s equations that define his general theory of relativity. He never liked the idea. Even though his concepts led to much of today’s exotic science, he himself was suspicious of esoteric things. But in time scientists began to take black holes seriously.
Regular people, when they were not watching “sci-fi", did not care much about black holes. Even on Thursday what contributed to the transmission of the news was not the power of science but of politics—of feminism.
In 2016, the computer scientist Katie Bouman, who is a key member of the team that photographed the M87 black hole, delivered a TED talk on a technique she developed to take the image. But that technique was eventually not used in the mission. Yet, hours after the image of the black hole was revealed, she emerged as th...
It is not surprising that people can argue about the exact role of a young woman in a scientific breakthrough, but not the scientific phenomenon itself. The image was created by a technology that used an array of radio telescopes located in various parts of the Earth to form a virtual telescope that could, “read a news...
It will be fascinating to watch what happens when one day theoretical physics, too, ceases to be a religion, and the amateur heretics are able to transmit their ideas widely. It would be hilarious if in the end cow urine turns out to be good for health, and there are no black holes.
Manu Joseph is a journalist, and a novelist,most recently of ‘Miss Laila, Armed And Dangerous’.
Watch out, feature phones: Motorola is once again aiming low with its latest Android phone.
The company today announced the Moto E, a $129 Android phone targeted at consumers who would normally opt for a cheap cellphone rather than a smartphone.
The Moto E is more concerned with durability than specs: It sports a water-resistant coating atop a tough Gorilla Glass screen. With a 4.3-inch screen, a 5-megapixel camera, and only 4 gigabytes of storage, you can definitely tell that the Moto E is a budget device. Of course, that won’t really matter to the audience M...
At just $50 less than the Moto G, a smartphone also praised for its low price, the Moto E heralds a new wave of Android devices. Expect other companies to follow suit with ultra-cheap Android phones. Motorola is also hammering home its war against dumb phones with a Tumblr-esque blog.
The phone runs Android 4.4 KitKat out of the box. Motorola has also developed some custom apps to help feature phone owners transition to the smartphone world.
The Moto E will be available this week in the U.S. and Europe.
Op-Ed: Australia's new anti-encryption laws a world first, but…?
Sydney - New encryption laws in Australia are likely to be a major litmus test for encryption legislation around the world. The initial proposal was ultimately modified in a bipartisan approach, but there are many questions to be asked yet, let alone answered.
The proposed legislation has received a lot of flak on privacy grounds, and other fundamentals. Equally seriously, it has also received some unexpected criticism from technical experts and business leaders. The mix of criticisms pretty much defines the likely response to any type of encryption legislation.
There is a real and pressing need for anti-encryption capacity in real time, right now. The dark web, organised crime, terrorists, bikie gangs, paedophiles, you name it; they all use encryption. If law enforcement is not able to access encryption technologies and manage cases of encryption, it's pretty much game over f...
Emerging technologies, including new forms of encryption and artificial intelligence-guided encryption mean that law enforcement will be well behind encryption technologies if it doesn’t have the required legislative powers. The next wave of encryption technologies will be far more sophisticated, and can be reasonably ...
At the national level, communications interception is an absolute, fundamental must-have. Intelligence agencies can't be expected to rely on guesswork. Given that Australian intelligence agencies have managed to prevent so many terrorist attacks, even without this legislation, a step up with better anti-encryption powe...
One of the least obvious negatives is based on the realities of intelligence gathering. The simple fact of being able to intercept and decode communications isn't the whole story. Understanding the meaning of communications, and being able to adapt and adjust quickly to changing circumstances is imperative. Encryption ...
A point raised by business leaders is that the risk of creating "system vulnerabilities" in allowing access to encrypted communications. That's a fair point, and it has been addressed in the new bipartisan approach to be encryption legislation, to the extent that it can be addressed in theory. In practice, however, thi...
Privacy concerns, naturally, are a major potential problem. The ability to invade privacy has now become a sort of "entitlement" for mass media. Hordes of paparazzi bugging celebrities, sleazy little personal revenge posts, etc. You could literally write an encyclopaedia on the risks of privacy invasion using various t...
This is not a simple issue, and be multiple ramifications of privacy invasion in whatever form is applied to anti-encryption legislation really shouldn't be trivialised. The problem is that this is also an imponderable issue in practice. There is no way of knowing which way anti-encryption legislation would impact priv...
Not getting much of a mention is another issue – Whether or not information which has been accessed by anti-encryption legislation is secure. Hacking law enforcement agencies is a sort of international sport, and it is a very high value type of information. Nobody can say that agency information is secure simply becaus...
Arguably the biggest problem for anti-encryption technologies is the likelihood of that others outside law enforcement and intelligence will also have access to anti-encryption software and technologies. An anti-encryption arms race is quite likely, and on a global scale, that could mean nations, criminals, hate groups...
Will there be a need to ban the sale and distribution of anti-encryption software, to protect financial institutions and online transactions? It could happen, in a rather grim way, if anti-encryption technologies are freely available. It could also be a very easy political point scorer across the board for Law and Orde...
It's the old story, "Who watches the watchers", and the short answer is likely to be "Everybody", including good guys and bad guys. Legislation has one major redeeming benefit; it has to be visible, and it has to have judicial support. That may ultimately be the only possible protection against the anti-encryption boom...
Both Chuckanut Drive and Mount Baker Highway are designated scenic drives by the state Department of Transportation.
Want to stay close to town for a casual walk? Memorial Park in Sunnyland neighborhood, the north shore along Lake Whatcom and the Interurban Trail in Bellingham are all delightful places.
In the Lynden area, stroll the Jim Kaemingk Sr. Trail or explore Berthusen Park.
In Ferndale, bike or walk the dike-top trail along the Nooksack, or explore Tennant Lake and Hovander Homestead Park.
Blaine’s Semiahmoo Park offers views of White Rock, B.C., and the Gulf Islands.
Wherever you wander and however you travel, remember to dress for the weather and don’t forget your camera. Check some of the websites listed here for more ideas.
The teenagers’ friendship has seemingly evolved into a full-fledged relationship.
in the end... it’s him and I.
The actress then shared an Instagram photo series of her cuddling a teddy bear Jacob gave to her.
Fans have been speculating that they were more than friends as they were spotted on vacation together on New Year's Eve. The teenage couple brought in the New Year together, along with Millie’s family, at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
Despite trying to keep a low profile, the couple’s outing was caught and shared on social media by fans.
What do you think about the teenage couple? Sound off in the comments!
A new US movement seeks to unite citizens in overcoming corruption, war, and social injustice.
Inspired by the courageous, nonviolent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Greece, Spain and elsewhere, people in the United States have come together to form the October 2011 Movement. This fusion of peace, social justice, environmental, student, and immigrant rights organisations is in solidarity with all wh...
October marks the beginning of the 11th year of the US invasion and destruction of Afghanistan. It marks the beginning of yet another federal budget that delivers unlimited funds for war and corporate interests while putting in place an austerity budget for services that meet human and environmental needs. But this Oct...
The response to our call, which just a few weeks old, has been tremendous. Already, more than one thousand people have pledged to join this resistance action in Freedom Square and that number is growing rapidly. Leading figures from a wide range of communities have stepped up to join the call. Among them are noted Afri...
History is knocking on the door of the United States and its people are ready. As the crises in our communities and around the world grow, so must our response. We can no longer abide the outrageous and growing wealth inequality in this country. We cannot accept a government "of, by and for" the corporations. We cannot...
In the United States, the people have little voice in the process of governance, as elected officials and institutions have been corrupted by concentrated corporate interests that have bought and paid for them. The people have no control over their own lives and the direction of their own communities. The brave who spe...
Our time has come. We pledge to stand together in nonviolent resistance to corporate greed, government corruption, violence and injustice. We must follow our brave brothers and sisters of the Arab Spring and developing European Summer into an Autumn of an American awakening. With our bodies united in resistance and our...
It is very difficult for us to get honest information about democracy movements around the world from the US corporate-controlled media. Please visit our website at www.october2011.org and keep us informed of your actions. We have called our action "Stop the Machine! Create a New World!" Together we will end concentrat...
Environmental campaigner and political activist Kevin Zeese wrote this piece on behalf of the October2011.org movement, a coalition of individuals and organisations seeking to end corporatism and militarism in the United States.
Kevin Zeese is a political and environmental rights activist, active in drug policy and electoral reform issues.
The National Association of Evangelicals said yesterday that it has been unable to reach a consensus on global climate change and will not take a stand on the issue, disappointing environmentalists who had hoped that evangelical Christians would prod the Bush administration to soften its position on global warming.
Over the past four years a growing number of evangelical groups have embraced environmental causes, urging Christians to engage in "Creation care" and campaigning against gas-guzzling SUVs with advertisements asking, "What would Jesus drive?"
In October 2004 the leadership of the NAE, which says it has 30 million members and is the nation's largest evangelical organization, declared that mankind has "a sacred responsibility to steward the Earth and not a license to abuse the creation of which we are a part." At about the same time, the umbrella group's pres...
But this fledgling movement -- dubbed the "greening of evangelicals" in a front-page Washington Post article a year ago -- has also met internal resistance. In a letter to Haggard last month, more than 20 evangelical leaders urged the NAE not to adopt "any official position" on global climate change because "Bible-beli...
The letter's signers amounted to a Who's Who of politically powerful evangelicals, including Charles W. Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries; James C. Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family; the Rev. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries; the Rev. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention; Richar...
In a written statement yesterday, Haggard denied reports that the NAE had circulated a draft paper calling for the Bush administration to support mandatory limits on carbon dioxide emissions.
"Allow me to confirm at the outset that the NAE is not circulating any official document on the environment. We are not considering a position on global warming. We are not advocating for specific legislation or government mandates," Haggard said. His statement added that the NAE's executive committee recently passed a...
Calvin DeWitt, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin who is a leading evangelical supporter of environmental causes, called the statement "a retreat and a defeat."
"A year ago, it looked as though evangelicals would become a strong, collective voice for what we call 'Creation care' and others may call environmentalism," he said. "This will have negative consequences for the ability of evangelicals to influence the White House, unfortunately and sadly."
But E. Calvin Beisner, professor of social ethics at Knox Theological Seminary, a conservative Presbyterian school in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., applauded the NAE's non-position.
Beisner, who helped draft the letter to Haggard from evangelical leaders, said they had feared that the NAE was going "to assume as true certain things that we think are still debatable, such as that global warming is not only real but also almost certainly going to be catastrophically harmful; second, that it is being...
'October' update rollout was put on hold for 38 days after a file-deletion bug caused problems.
“Based on (telemetry) data, today we are beginning the re-release of the October Update by making it available via media and to advanced users who seek to manually check for updates,” John Cable, director of program management in the Windows servicing and delivery team, wrote in a post to a company blog.
For the moment, Microsoft has not begun serving the upgrade to PCs accessing Windows Update, the consumer and small business update service. Commercial customers running Windows 10 Enterprise can deploy the renewed 1809 immediately – most likely for limited testing – using a host of corporate tools, including WSUS (Win...
Microsoft also reset the release date for Windows 10 1809 – Microsoft names feature upgrades using a yymm format – and shifted end-of-support deadlines to accommodate. On the definitive source of Microsoft’s support timelines, the original 2 October launch date was changed to 13 November, while the support expiration d...
The Redmond, Wash. company did not apologise for the problem that forced it to yank the upgrade off servers five and a half weeks ago – the initial 1809 had several bugs, two involving errant file deletions, one of which erased all files in a set of user-content folders – mention why it took so long to correct the prob...
Microsoft did spend considerable effort talking up its testing processes, promising more transparency about how it approaches Q&A and defending Windows’ quality.
“Over the last three years, one of our key indicators of product quality – customer service call and chat volumes – has steadily dropped even as the number of machines running Windows 10 increased,” said Michael Fortin, corporate vice president for Windows. In a separate post, he cited other metrics, including one base...
Fortin also admitted that Microsoft had gotten an earful, then swore things would improve. “While we do see positive trends, we also hear clearly the voices of our users who are facing frustrating issues, and we pledge to do more,” he said.
Microsoft had previously hinted of 1809’s re-release when it rescheduled dates for two online events: a company-hosted webcast and a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ conversation. The original dates for the pair of events had been 31 October and 1 November respectively; Microsoft shoved them to 28 November and 13 December. Tho...
Tristan Thompson Spotted House Hunting In L.A.
Khloe Kardashian’s man, Tristan Thompson, was spotted house hunting in L.A. this week. The NBA star is seemingly looking for a new house just months after his cheating scandal.
According to a July 3 report by the Daily Mail, Tristan Thompson was seen looking at vacant houses in the suburbs of L.A. on Tuesday. The basketball player was photographed checking out a house in Woodland Hills that is currently for sale.
Tristan Thompson wore a white Nike T-shirt with blue Nike shorts and a pair of slide-on sandals as he house-hunted. At one point he was even photographed lifting up his shirt to give the cameras a peek at his toned abs.
The house that Thompson peeked at includes seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms. The mansion sits on Mullholland Drive and is reportedly selling for $2 million. The house has three stories and is said to be 4,590 square feet. The home was reportedly built in 1986, and includes amenities such as a swimming pool, barbecue ...
While Tristan’s baby mama, Khloe Kardashian, already has a home that she loves near her family in Calabasas, it seems that Thompson is looking for a new place to live near his girlfriend. Fans are now wondering why Tristan would need a new home if he’s been living with Khloe and their daughter, True.
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Tristan Thompson only recently returned to L.A. after returning to his hometown of Toronto, Canada, to reunite with his friends for a guys’ night out. The men headed to STK Toronto restaurant where they were given a private room for their bash. Sources tell Us Weekly that the gu...
Later, the staff members brought out a platter of sweet treats for the men to enjoy for dessert. On the platter the hashtag “#TrueDaddy” was spelled out in chocolate frosting.
As for Tristan Thompson’s interaction with Khloe Kardashian’s family three months after the cheating scandal, sources reveal that things are going much better.
Svetlana Alexievich hit out at Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko during a press conference after winning the Nobel Prize in literature.
MINSK, Belarus — Svetlana Alexievich, the Russian-speaking Belarusian winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature, lashed out at Russia and the president of Belarus hours after the prize, saying they belonged to a “Russian world” she rejected.
“I consider myself a person of the Belarusian world, a person of Russian culture, and a cosmopolitan of the world,” Alexievich said at a press conference on Thursday. “I love the good, humanitarian Russian world” of “literature, ballet, grand music. But I don’t love the world of Stalin, Beria, Putin, and Shoigu,” she a...
“If we boycott the election, we give Lukashenko a chance to increase his percentage,” Alexievich said. Alexievich, 67, the first Belarusian to win a Nobel, said Lukashenko had not called to congratulate her, though Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, and a Russian minister had. “Belarus’s government pretends I don’t...
Lukashenko is expected to win Sunday’s vote by a wide margin, in large part due to his near total control of Belarusian society and dissident groups’ failure to register a candidate. Alexievich’s works, which the Swedish Academy called a “monument to suffering and courage in our time,” have not been published in Belaru...
Alexievich said she did not plan to vote, but offered a qualified endorsement of Tatiana Karatkevich, the nearest thing to an opposition candidate. Karatkevich has alienated most of Belarus’s dissidents with a campaign focused on everyday social problems rather than calls for democratic change.
Alexievich signs her first book as a Nobel laureate.
Belarus’s opposition was thrilled with Alexievich’s victory. “I’m happy for all of us, for everyone who loves Belarus, regardless of the language he expresses that love in,” former presidential candidate and political prisoner Mikola Statkevich wrote on Facebook.
“I’m not a barricade person. I don’t like them. But time leads us to the barricades, because what’s happening is shameful,” Alexievich said, urging Belarusians to adopt non-violent protest. “I’m against revolutions. I don’t want one life to be lost. We need to find our Belarusian Gandhism."
Alexeivich also voiced her opposition to the war in Ukraine, which she described as a “an occupation and an invasion by a foreign power,” and said she feared Putin would succeed in building a Russian airbase in Belarus, despite Lukashenko’s opposition. “Belarus could be saved if it turned towards the European Union, bu...
Alexievich, whose debut book, War’s Unwomanly Face, chronicled the lives of Soviet women during World War II, said the nationalist wave in Russia reminded her of the early years of Nazi Germany. “At the start, when they told Germans: don’t go to that doctor, don’t go to that tailor, they went to see Jewish doctors anyw...

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