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"Many people are not aware that BCCI routinely holds meeting with the coach and the support staff after each and every tour. This is an age-old norm. This meeting would have also been held at the Cricket Centre in Mumbai but our president had a cataract operation and was unable to travel.
That's why, I also flew down to Chennai for this meeting," Patel said.
Patel also dismissed suggestions of an Indian support staff being tagged along with the current trio of Fletcher, Joe Dawes and fielding coach Trevor Penny.
"We have no plans of having an Indian in the existing support staff as of now," he clarified.
However, he was not very forthcoming on whether Fletcher will get an extension till the next World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
"This is an ongoing process. There has been absolutely no talks on Fletcher's removal. But yes, it's not a process where the day your contract expires, the very next day the papers are ready. It takes time.
"The World Cup is still some distance away. In fact, we had a very fruitful discussion with Fletcher. We asked him as to what we can do to help him. He said about the requirement of an additional trainer. It was a very positive discussion and exchange of ideas," Patel added.
BOSTON (AP) — A man who left about $187,000 cash in a Boston taxi has been reunited with his money thanks to an honest cabbie, police said Tuesday.
Raymond "Buzzy" MacCausland, a driver for the Independent Taxi Operators Association, picked up a fare with a cast on one leg on Saturday.
"He told me he was homeless and had been living in a shelter for six months," MacCausland said.
At one point, the man got out of the cab to meet a friend intending to return, leaving a bag behind, the 72-year-old MacCausland said. MacCausland waited about 30 minutes, but the man didn't return. So, he drove to the man's hotel to look for him.
Unable to find the man, even with the help of the hotel staff, MacCausland looked in the bag for identification. There he found three bundles of $50 and $100 dollar bills. He immediately drove to police headquarters to turn in the cash.
Police found paperwork indicating that the money was part of an inheritance.
"To me that was a relief," MacCausland said. "Because I know if it wasn't they'd come looking for me."
The money was returned to the unnamed man after police determined he was the rightful owner. The man gave MacCausland a $100 reward.
"This hackney driver exhibited exemplary behavior and his honest deed should be recognized," Police Commissioner William Evans said in a statement.
About 30 years ago, another person left a large sum of money in MacCausland's cab. A fare he drove to the airport left a briefcase containing $10,000 behind. That person didn't give him a reward, he said.
Yesterday afternoon I attended an invite-only event at Bellevue Towers. It was designed as a thank you to all the real estate agents that have contributed to their success. The event was held in unit #2501 (big views). I would guess that there were about 20 brokers in attendance. We had a nice lunch, listened to a re-cap of their sales progress and learned a bit more about the future direction of the project. They reminded us of their new website, gave us a tour of their updated models and talked about their projected sales numbers for calendar year 2011. The sales team hopes to reach a 50% sellout by year end. In just 9 months of this year, they have sold 127 units. Pretty impressive.
For anyone thinking about a high-rise condo, I can honestly say that you should make it a priority to check out their inventory. The building has great amenities, spacious floorplans and a good location. In addition, Bellevue seems to be hitting its post-recession stride. There are several new restaurants, a new grocery store and an abundance of new retailers joining an already impressive list.
Looking for a condo in Bellevue?
Dawn Lightfoot, 30, and her boyfriend, Matt Schiavon had planned to be in Nepal on April 15. Both are longtime San Diegans who attended San Dieguito High School Academy.
A Carlsbad, California, woman has been waiting by the phone for any news on her daughter, who she reported missing after Saturday’s deadly earthquake in Nepal.
Dawn Lightfoot, 30, has been teaching in South Korea for two years and planned to travel around South East Asia with her boyfriend, Matt Schiavon. Schiavon is now also among the missing.
Matt Schiavon and Dawn Lightfoot, both graduates of San Dieguito High School Academy, were traveling through Asia according to Dawn's mother.
“I want to say I know she's okay and I feel she's okay," said Lightfoot’s mother Cindy Barrows. "If anyone would know anything to please let us know."
According to her itinerary, Lightfoot planned to arrive in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 15, which would put her in the area of the powerful quakes that have rocked the country.
The death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal soared past 4,000 and aid agencies warned that it could skyrocket higher once rescuers make it to rural communities that thus far have been inaccessible, NBC news reported.
Vast tent cities have sprung up in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, for those displaced or afraid to return to their homes as strong aftershocks continued through Sunday.
Barrows said she’s concerned her daughter doesn’t have shelter or water.
On Sunday night, a friend helped Barrows register Dawn's information as a missing person through the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Barrows said over the past two years she’s been communicating with her daughter via Facebook and photos. Now she’s hoping to get a call, text or Facebook message.
Schiavon’s older sister, Joanna, lives in Santa Barbara. She and her parents are trying to stay positive but it’s not easy.
The last time the family heard from the couple was a Skype call on April 13. Schiavon and Lightfoot talked about their upcoming 18-day trek in Nepal. On April 15, they received an email saying the pair had arrived safely in Kathmandu and haven’t heard from them since.
Joanna said the couple was scheduled to finish the trip on May 2.
The Schiavon family has reached out to the company Earthbound Expeditions to try and contact Lightfoot and Schiavon. They were told the two hikers should be okay but the representative didn’t have any specific information. Since then, they’ve gotten no updates.
They're trying to fill out forms through the website for the U.S. Embassy in Nepal but many of the links are not working.
Barrows keeps checking her daughter's itinerary. Lightfoot has been set to fly into Los Angeles International Airport on May 27.
“If she has Matt, and her and Matt are together, they’re like a rock,” Barrows said, adding that it would be likely her daughter and her boyfriend are helping those affected by the quake.
Lightfoot and Schiavon have traveled the world. This was their big last vacation before settling down to become teachers, according to Barrows.
Both went to Cardiff School and San Dieguito High School Academy in San Diego County.
Friends say Schiavon graduated from La Costa Canyon in 2002.
High school friend Mackenzie Foote said she is praying for his safe return.
“Matt is an adventurous guy with the kindest heart,” Foote said.
Lightfoot graduated from San Diego State University with a business degree before moving to San Francisco with Schiavon.
The couple lived in the Bay Area for four years and got their teaching credentials at San Francisco State University.
NBC 7's Liberty Zabala talks with Cindy Barrows of Carlsbad who is hoping to hear from her daughter Dawn Lightfoot and her daughter's boyfriend Matt Schiavon.
ADAMS TOWNSHIP – Playing the 11th game in the last 12 days, the Clinton-Massie softball team blanked Goshen 10-0 Friday in an SBAAC American Division game.
But things don’t get any easier for the Lady Falcons after a couple days off.
Taylor Florea pitched five innings, allowing two hits and striking out nine.
Victoria Sivert hit a two-run homer while Natalie Lay had two hits and drove in two runs.
A study by Which? has highlighted the poor security of some Virgin Media home Wi-Fi routers, leading the ISP to warn 800,000 customers to update their passwords.
Which? was investigating the security of smart home devices when it found that a large number of Virgin Media broadband routers had very insecure default admin passwords of just eight A-Z characters. This made it trivial for SureCloud - the security experts commissioned by Which? - to gain access to the router’s administrator controls.
Getting admin access will grant an attacker total control of your network. Once inside they have free reign to block the internet, intercept data, or even modify the router’s firmware for even more nefarious purposes.
The Virgin Media Super Hub 2 (pictured above) was highlighted as being especially vulnerable, though Virgin admitted that other models of the same age are also affected. As well as changing your password you can also upgrade to the latest Virgin Hub 3 hardware to benefit from improved security, in addition to other features.
How do I change my router password?
To change your admin password you must use the router’s administrator controls. Router admin controls are accessed by navigating to an internal IP address using a web browser. These details will either be provided in the user manual, or printed on a sticker attached to the router itself.
In the case of the Virgin Media Super Hub 2, the default address is http://192.168.0.1, and the default password is found on a sticker.
This problem is not unique to Virgin Media, changing the admin password is something everyone should do. Almost all broadband routers use a simple default password, and often this is identical across every router of the same make or model, which can make a hacker’s job laughably simple.
Note that some routers will only allow you to choose a password, while others may let you modify both the username and password. Since the username is frequently just “admin”, it’s a good idea to update this to something unique as well.
Password protecting Wi-Fi is essential, otherwise neighbours or anyone passing by can jump on your network (and, once connected, could access the admin controls if you’ve not changed the default login). Nowadays any router should be password protected by default, and the Wi-Fi passwords are usually unique to each device, so this at least is not a huge security flaw out of the box. But that default password is probably displayed on a sticker. If you’d prefer not to give Wi-Fi access to anyone who can read, change it to something that’s not printed on the router.
Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is a feature which aims to make Wi-Fi even easier to use by letting WPS compatible devices connect automatically with the press of a button. But WPS is actually a huge security vulnerability as it can allow the Wi-Fi password to be cracked using freely available tools. For this reason, WPS should be disabled.
Most home users are not going to need the ability to access their router’s admin controls over the internet. Switch this feature off to prevent outside interference. Your router may also offer the ability to restrict admin access to a wired connection, which means that if anyone wants to mess with your network they’re not only going to need to break your password (which is very strong, right?) but also get inside your home and plug in an ethernet cable.
You’ll find further tips for securing home and business Wi-Fi routers in our guide to Wi-Fi security.
The airstrikes launched by the US, Britain and France in Damascus and nearby areas on Friday night have worsened the already volatile situation in Syria. The ‘precision’ strikes were purported to destroy Bashar Al Assad regime’s alleged chemical weapons capability. The Anglo-French-American attacks were in response to the “chemical weapons attack” in Syria’s Douma. Curiously, the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) team of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was expected to start its work on 14 April to establish facts around the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma. Now the question is whether OPCW team will be allowed to carry out its task in the background of a series of airstrikes launched in the alleged sites. Observers said that these attacks have only disrupted the conduct of an impartial investigation. Meanwhile, it was reported that Syria’s air defence systems intercepted as many 71 out of more than a hundred cruise missiles.
Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari said at a UN Security Council meeting on Friday that his country had invited an OPCW fact-finding mission to come to Syria and visit the site of the alleged incident. We were ready to provide all necessary conditions for a transparent work of this mission. We expected this team to begin work within hours, he said. The Russian envoys argued that there was no ‘reliable evidence’ of any chemical attack. “Our specialists found no traces of the use of toxic agents. Douma’s residents know nothing about the attack. All information about the alleged attack comes from anti-government forces that are interested in such development of the situation,” adding that Russia has evidence indicating that “it was a provocation involving secret services of a number of countries,” they said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry questioned the claims of some agencies such as White Helmets, that the government used chemical weapons in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, on April 7. The organization’s website posted information on April 8, stating that chlorine bombs were dropped to kill civilians. The Russian Defense Ministry pointed out that White Helmets were an “unreliable source, notorious for disseminating falsehoods.” The Russian agencies, meanwhile, examined this in Douma and found no traces of chemical weapons. It may be noted that this town became the last opposition stronghold in capital. The Syrian army recaptured the town in the days following the attack. Then the question raised was whether the army making headway in the operation had to resort to such a course of action. That the date chosen for the attacks also coincided with the arrival of the OPCW fact-finding mission in Syria raised many eyebrows. Is it that the three major powers had a skeleton in the cupboard?
If the situation gets further worsened, Syria will witness another spell of disaster. Since the beginning of the war in 2011, more than half a million Syrians have been killed, nearly a million have been maimed, and 14 million – more than half the Syrian population – have been forced to flee their homes. As many as 6 million have moved abroad and registered as refugees. Now, in the seventh year of war, these 14 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance within the country and abroad. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated that nearly 5 million have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, and nearly 7 million are internally displaced within Syria. About a million have sought asylum in Europe. Germany, which has more than 3 lakh applications, and Sweden with 100,000, are EU’s top receiving countries.
There has been a colossal loss of material resources over the last seven years – by way of damaging and destroying healthcare centres and hospitals, schools, utilities, and water and sanitation. Historic sites and market places have been reduced to ruins. Long years of civil war broke the base of business and social life in Syria. Consequently, millions scattered, creating the largest refugee and displacement crisis of the century half of people affected by the excruciating agonies were children. In a report, UNICEF estimated that 85 per cent of registered Syrian refugee children were living below the poverty line. Besides, 94 per cent of children below 5 living in host communities were “multi-dimensionally poor,” implying that they stood deprived of a minimum of two out of the five basic needs – education, health, water and sanitation, child protection and child safety.
4 out of 10 Syrian families do not have enough food for an adequate diet, with an additional 26 per cent vulnerable to becoming food insecure; 45 per cent of Syrian 0-5 year olds have no access to proper health services including vaccinations and disability services; 38 per cent of Syrian children cannot go to school, due to distance, cost, lack of space etc as reasons for dropping out or not enrolling; For children aged 6-17 years, child labour and violence have become major challenges; 16 percent of Syrian children from 0-5 years are lacking a birth certificate, which will present challenges and expose them to additional risks as they grow up.
Do the three Western powers who unleashed airstrikes in Syria realise the gravity of this huge human insecurity of Syrians in the country and abroad? If the establishments they destroyed in Damascus were actually ‘chemical weapons’ factories (with potentially dangerous substances), what would have been its impact on the living beings and the environment? Will they not lead to another ‘chemical-industrial tragedy’ with huge loss of population? Why is that these three powers were so hurry to undertake the operations on 14 April – the day the OPCW fact-finding mission was set to start its investigation? The hands of US, UK and France are obviously tied with innumerable questions that have nothing to do with the Syrian government’s ‘chemical weapons capability.’ These questions have more to do with the larger geopolitical interests of these powers and their ‘prosperous’ military-industrial complex. Setbacks in international commodity trade are now compensated by booming weapons’ business. Trump’s ‘fair trade’ is nothing but a chimera for ‘free trade’ in defence and unfair practices in geopolitical circuit routes.
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Purchases of new U.S. homes rose in August, capping the weakest two months this year, showing the fallout from mortgage rates at a two-year high is cooling the real-estate rebound.
Sales increased 7.9 percent to a 421,000 annualized pace following a 390,000 rate in the prior month that was less than previously estimated, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. Demand slumped 14.1 percent in July. The median forecast of 77 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News called for 420,000.
The data highlight the risk that the run-up in borrowing costs pose for the housing rebound, which has boosted growth the past two years. Federal Reserve policy makers last week refrained from reducing the $85 billion pace of monthly bond buying, saying the tightening of financial conditions, if sustained, could slow the pace of improvement in the economy.
The back-to-back readings were the weakest this year, and fell short of an average 446,000 rate in the first six months of 2013.
Economists’ sales estimates ranged from 385,000 to 450,000. The data for July was previously reported as 394,000.
Another report today showed orders for equipment such as computers and machinery climbed less than forecast in August, indicating a strengthening in business spending will take time to develop.
Bookings for non-military capital goods excluding aircraft increased 1.5 percent after a 3.3 percent drop in July, the Commerce Department reported. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected a 2 percent gain. Demand for all durable goods, those meant to last at least three years, rose 0.1 percent after plunging 8.1 percent in July.
Stocks fell as concern grew that lawmakers in Washington won’t reach a budget deal. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index declined 0.3 percent to 1,693.01 at 10:15 a.m. in New York.
The median sales price for a new home increased 0.6 percent from August 2012, to reach $254,600, today’s report showed.
Purchases rose in three of four U.S. regions, led by a 19.6 percent jump in the Midwest. Sales dropped 14.6 percent in the West to an 82,000 annualized pace, the weakest since March 2012.
The supply of homes at the current sales rate fell to 5 months from 5.2 months in the prior month. There were 175,000 new houses on the market at the end of August, the most since March 2011.
New-home sales, tabulated when contracts are signed, are considered a timelier barometer than purchases of previously owned dwellings, which are calculated when a contract closes.
Newly constructed houses accounted for about 7 percent of the residential market in 2012, with resales accounting for the rest.
Sales of previously owned properties rose 1.7 percent in August to a 5.48 million annual rate, the most since February 2007, as buyers rushed to lock in interest rates that were starting to climb from near record-low levels, data from the National Association of Realtors showed last week. The number of existing houses on the market was 2.25 million at the end of August, the fewest for that month since 2002.
There are few signs the rise in mortgage rates will halt the housing rebound, according to homebuilder executives.
Lennar Corp., the third-largest U.S. homebuilder by revenue, said its fiscal third-quarter earnings rose as the company sold more houses and raised prices. The housing recovery “is still very much intact,” said Stuart Miller, chief executive officer of the Miami-based builder.
Red Bank, New Jersey-based Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. reported a profit for its fiscal third quarter as net contracts climbed 1.8 percent and the contract backlog, an indication of future sales, jumped 18 percent.
The rate on 30-year home loans averaged 4.50 percent in the week ended Sept. 19, close to the highest level since July 2011, according to data from McLean, Virginia-based Freddie Mac. The rate, which was as low as 3.81 percent at the end of May, began rising since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke that month indicated the central bank may slow asset purchases.
The Fed last week maintained its $85 billion monthly pace of bond buying, saying it needs additional evidence of sustained improvement in the economy. “The tightening of financial conditions observed in recent months, if sustained, could slow the pace of improvement,” it said in a statement.
Builders began work on fewer homes than projected in August, Commerce Department figures showed earlier this month. Housing starts rose 0.9 percent, while permits, a proxy for future projects, dropped.
A member of the Colombian neo-paramilitary organization, “Los Urabeños,” on Thursday was sentenced to 49 years in prison for murdering two university students near a beach on Colombia’s Caribbean coast in 2011.
Victor Hinestroza, alias “Blanquito,” has been sentenced to 49 years and six months for his role in the murders of University of Andes students Mateo Matamala (23) and Margarita Gomez (26).
Blanquito became the second person convicted after a judge sentenced the taxi driver who transported the gunmen to the crime scene to 37 years in prison.
Furthermore, Feliciano Jose Martinez Blanco, alias “El Nariz,” another subject involved in the double murder, was found dead in a rural area of the northern department of Cordoba. According to sources, the murder of El Nariz was ordered by Los Urabeños leaders because he was “out of control” and extorting coastal farmers.
Zediva’s streaming movie service may seem too good to be true, but its legal battle with the movie industry will be no joke.
To defend itself from the Motion Picture Association of America, Zediva has retained a trio of laywers from Durie Tangri, a high-profile intellectual property law firm. The team includes Michael Page, who defended music-sharing service Grokster through to its loss in the Supreme Court; Joe Gratz, who won a case that allowed consumers to sell promotional CDs; and Mark Lemley, a Stanford University professor and IP expert.
Zediva streams new releases for cheaper than iTunes, Amazon and other on-demand movie services because it doesn’t pay any licensing fees to Hollywood studios. The service works like Slingbox, renting a dedicated DVD and movie disc to the user and streaming the content to any Flash-equipped web browser for $2 per movie or $10 for a 10-pack. Because Zediva isn’t duplicating any of the content, it argues that there’s nothing illegal about the service. Movie studios obviously disagree.
But whether Zediva stands a chance in court may not be its biggest concern. Immediately after launching in March, Zediva had to cut off new registrations due to overwhelming demand. The service is physically and financially constrained by the number of DVDs and DVD players it can fit in a server room, and letting too many people in would make the act of renting a movie nearly impossible. It also means that Zediva can never offer a huge movie library, due to the logistics of storing so many DVDs.
I would have loved to see if Zediva could make its quirky approach work without also fending off Hollywood lawyers, but that was never going to happen. Instead, the service will become fodder for copyright case law — not as fun to watch, but not a total waste, either.
They will go down as they can't "broadcast" the content.