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NEW YORK – Milwaukee Bucks big man Joel Przybilla was suspended for one game by the NBA on Sunday for throwing a basketball and hitting a referee.
The incident took place with 96 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of Milwaukee's 111-85 home loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday.
The 7-foot-1 (2.16-meter) reserve center will miss Tuesday's Milwaukee home game against Indiana. He will eligible to return the following night when the Bucks visit Memphis.
Przybilla has career averages of 3.9 points, 6.2 rebounds and 1.4 blocked shots a game over 13 NBA seasons with Milwaukee, Atlanta, Portland and Charlotte.
At 12-10, the Bucks are level with Indiana for second in the Central division, both one game behind the Chicago Bulls. The Bucks have not reached the playoffs since 2006 and have not won a playoff series since 2001.
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Section 1-The Light Reactions OBJECTIVES Explain why almost all organisms depend on photosynthesis. Describe the role of chlorophylls and other pigments in photosynthesis. Summarize the main events of the light reactions. Explain how ATP is made during the light reactions. Obtaining Energy Photosynthesis converts light energy from the sun into chemical energy in the form of organic compounds through a series of reactions known as biochemical pathways. Obtaining Energy, cont. Autotrophs use energy from sunlight or from chemical bonds in inorganic substances to make organic compounds. Animals and other organisms that must get energy from food instead of directly from sunlight or inorganic substances are called heterotrophs. Comparing Autotrophs and Heterotrophs Clip Photosynthesis Overview The oxygen (O2) and some of the organic compounds produced by photosynthesis are used by cells in a process called cellular respiration. Linking Photosynthesis and Respiration Photosynthesis Overview, cont. Photosynthesis can be divided into two stages: Light Reactions and Calvin Cycle – In the light reactions, light energy is converted to chemical energy, which is temporarily stored in ATP and the energy carrier molecule NADPH. – In the Calvin Cycle, organic compounds are formed using CO2 and the chemical energy stored in ATP and NADPH. Photosynthesis Overview, cont. Equation for Photosynthesis: 6CO2 + 6H2O light energy C6H12O6 + 6O2 Capturing Light Energy The light reactions begin with the absorption of light in chloroplasts, organelles found in the cells of plants, some bacteria, and algae. Parts of a Chloroplast Capturing Light Energy, cont. Light and Pigments – White light from the sun is composed of an array of colors called the visible spectrum. – Pigments absorb certain colors of light and reflect or transmit the other colors. Capturing Light Energy, cont. Chloroplast Pigments – Located in the membrane of the thylakoids of chloroplasts are several pigments, including chlorophylls (such as chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b) and carotenoids. Spectrum of Light Clip Light Energy to Chemical Energy Step 1 The pigments are grouped in clusters of a few hundred molecules in the thylakoid membrane. Each cluster and the proteins that the pigment molecules are embedded in are referred to collectively as a photosystem. By absorbing light, pigment molecules in photosystem I and photosystem II acquire some of the energy carried by the light. Light Energy to Chemical Energy Step 2 In each photosystem, the acquired energy is passed quickly to other pigment molecules until it reaches a specific pair of chlorophyll a molecules. The acquired energy forces electrons to enter a higher energy level in the two chlorophyll a molecules of photosystem II. These energized electrons are said to be "excited." The excited electrons have enough energy to leave the chlorophyll a molecules. Light Energy to Chemical Energy Step 3 The acceptor of these electrons from photosystem II is a molecule called the primary electron acceptor, which donates the electrons to the electron transport chain. As the electrons move from molecule to molecule in this chain, they lose most of the acquired energy. The energy they lose is used to move protons into the thylakoid. Light Energy to Chemical Energy Step 4 Light is absorbed by photosystem I at the same time it is absorbed by photosystem II. Electrons move from chlorophyll a molecules to another primary electron acceptor. The electrons lost from photosystem I are replaced by electrons that have passed through the electron transport chain from photosystem II. Light Energy to Chemical Energy Step 5 These electrons are then donated to another electron transport chain, which brings the electrons to the side of the thylakoid membrane that faces the stroma. In the stroma, the electrons combine with a proton and NADP+. This causes NADP+ to be reduced to NADPH. Converting Light Energy To Chemical Energy Replacing Electrons in Light Reactions – Electrons from photosystem II replace electrons that leave photosystem I. Replacement electrons for photosystem II are provided by the splitting of water molecules. – Oxygen produced when water molecules are split diffuses out of the chloroplast and then leaves the plant. Converting Light Energy To Chemical Energy Making ATP in Light Reactions – An important part of the light reactions is the synthesis of ATP. During chemiosmosis, the movement of protons through ATP synthase into the stroma releases energy, which is used to produce ATP.
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Ever since the new government announced in their manifesto that they will be deploying laptops to standard 1 children in schools across Kenya, the big question on everyone's mind is how will this program work? Can the country afford it? What would it take to make the idea work?
Last Friday I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion which focused on how ICTs can be used to promote learning in Kenya, challenges expected and lessons learned from those who have already deployed those ICTs in schools in Kenya. The meeting took place at KARIBU CENTRE which is dedicated to providing basic needs, education and empowerment to the most vulnerable women children in and around Thika, Kenya. Also present at the meeting were representatives from the British Council, Intel, VMWARE and Team4Tech.
Team4Tech in collaboration with Intel are using theIntel Classmate PCs and adaptive learning software to teach preschool children literacy, numeracy and science skills on the PCs at the Karibu Centre. The PCs use solar chargers. The children are aged between 3-6 years and they spend an average of about half an hour a day on the computers using them. Some skills taught by the software to the pre scholars include coloring, pronunciation skills, shapes, word games e.tc. The PCs contain programs that monitor each student's performance to keep track of their improvement. At present, the centre has about 140 students.
When deploying ICTs in schools, it is important to consider some key things: the teachers; getting local content used on these machines as well as how to ensure sustainability of the initiative. Towards this end, the Team4 Tech team has a program that trains the teachers in the schools in Thika basic computer skills (how to operate computers, typing skills, use of Microsoft tools like MS Word, PowerPoint e.t.c) as well as how to operate the programs installed in the laptops that the pre scholars are using. So far, 60 teachers have been trained through this program.Volunteers from across the world from corporations like Intel, VMware, from Orphans Overseas and from Kenya take two weeks to train the teachers in these courses. Getting digitized local content based in the approved curriculum still remains a huge challenge. Currently the program uses the Waterford early learning software on their machines.
Assumptions and opportunities that arise from deploying ICTs in schools are:
- There is a huge demand for local content: Developers should consider designing software applications that can extract content from the textbooks and be used on either pc's or mobile devices. Publishers in Kenya should readily avail their content digitally as opposed to just on textbooks.
- Policies need to be adjusted to reflect the structure that should be followed on deploying the ICTs in schools, the do's and don'ts as well as focus on how to protect the children when they access online content.
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MR Prosad Dasgupta has replaced Mr Suresh Mathur as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Petronet LNG Ltd, according to an official communication.
Mr Dasgupta was earlier the Director (Finance), Petronet LNG. Petronet LNG is a company formed by the Government to import LNG and set up LNG terminals in the country. It is a joint venture company promoted by GAIL (India) Ltd, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd with an authorised capital of Rs 1,200 crore.
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James Rodriguez is the latest football player to become an underwear model.
The renewed deal between EA Sports and the Premier League is adding a bunch of new features to the soccer game.
After an exciting 2014 World Cup, Shakira, 37, and footballer boyfriend Gerald Pique, 27, are on the news again as reports indicate that the couple is expecting their second child together. Apparently, the singer is about to give their 18-month-old son Milan a playmate!
The World Cup final is hours away but there hasn't been a shortage of awe-inspiring play leading up to tomorrow's match between Brazil and Germany.
They dominated Group G play and dismantled the host nation. Germany's trip to Sunday's World Cup final wasn't easy but they sure made it look that way.
Here we go again. Argentina and Germany will play one more time for the World Cup in what will be the third time these two clubs have faced each other in the final match. Oh yeah, and they split those two first matches 1-1. So basically, you don't want to miss this one.
Hey, LA soccer fans! Can't afford a ticket to Brazil for the World Cup final match? Neither can we. Not to worry, because we've scoped out the best local places to watch Argentina take on Germany this Sunday. So pick a spot you like and come join the mob. Remember, it'll be four more years until you can do this again.
Coming off unconvincing Round of 16 efforts, Argentina and Belgium square off with a trip to the 2014 World Cup semifinals on the line.
If Brazil is going to advance to the semifinal round in their bid to win the World Cup in their own country, they are going to have to knockoff the most exciting team in the tournament. The Colombia squad had no problem defeating Uruguay on their way to advancing to this stage, and they made it look easy. Brazil, on the other hand, has struggled in what was supposed to be their year and their tournament. It will take everything Neymar and company can muster to stave off the charging Colombian club.
France and Germany are among those clubs who have already won the World Cup at some point. France won its only title when it hosted the tournament in 1998, and Germany, winners of three World Cup titles, last stood victorious in Italy in 2006. Surprisingly this will be the first time the two have played against each other in this tournament, in what should make for an evenly matched epic showdown on Friday.
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What to Look for in Tonight's Foreign Policy Debate
Don't expect much of the 'vision thing.'
- By Martin Indyk<p> Martin Indyk is vice president and director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. </p> <p> On Oct. 24, Brookings will host a discussion on the issues raised at the final presidential debate. FP's Susan Glasser will moderate the panel, which will include Brookings Senior Fellows Robert Kagan, Suzanne Maloney, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Bruce Riedel. Martin Indyk will offer opening remarks. </p>
Vision, character, judgment. That's what people should be looking out for in tonight's foreign-policy debate. It's not going to be easy to discern any of these things during what is likely to be another slanging match between the candidates over the Benghazi affair or Chinese currency manipulation.
Americans by now know that foreign policy matters because it can have a profound impact on their daily lives and their economic circumstances. But it has received short shrift during a highly politicized campaign that has naturally focused on economic issues. Do you have any idea where Mitt Romney or Barack Obama intend to lead America over the next four years? Neither candidate is an ideologue; both evince a pragmatism that suggests a common willingness to take the world as it comes, rather than to try to shape it according to a preconceived vision. That probably explains why, when you clear away the heated rhetoric, there isn't a great deal of difference in the policies they espouse for treating the world's major problems. They both want to end the war in Afghanistan, prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, stand up to China's assertiveness, and support a united Europe.
Obama is a progressive by instinct and therefore prefers a greener, more peaceful, and more humane planet with fewer nuclear weapons. It's not clear whether any of these things matter to Romney. If his last foreign-policy speech is anything to go by, he will double down in the Middle East. Obama at least has developed a strategy for "pivoting" to Asia, which makes sense given the rise of China and India and the declining importance of Middle Eastern oil for America's future. Neither has yet defined the kind of emerging global order they envisage helping to create. Don't expect much of the "vision thing" in tonight's debate, but look for an indication of which candidate has a surer sense of where he wants to take America and the world in the next four years — and, of course, whether you want to go there.
In the world we live in, the president rarely gets a chance to deal the hand he has to play in international affairs. Every day brings a new, unexpected crisis that can easily overwhelm his inbox, and the 24/7 news cycle demands an immediate reaction even when the information is incomplete (e.g. Benghazi). It's in those moments that character counts. Obama has demonstrated a cool, deliberative style that has served this nation well in crisis. But that same coolness has been off-putting to world leaders who want to develop a relationship with the president of the United States because their nations' fates depend on it. Romney is a businessman, likely also to make cold calculations about where the national interest lies. He has talked about leadership in this campaign but one senses it's defined by a nostalgia for the days when the United States was the sole superpower and could dictate to the world.
If you've been paying attention over this last decade to America's role in the world, you also know by now that foreign policy does not consist of simple choices between good and bad options — there are usually only bad options. That's why judgment matters. Judgment isn't just about making the right choice in difficult circumstances, it's also about seeing beyond the immediate need to act and calculating the unintended consequences of a particular course of action. It won't be easy to measure judgment in tonight's debate, but we may get glimpses of it in the way each candidate chooses to conduct himself. Foreign policy is serious business requiring politicians to rise above petty point-scoring to demonstrate statesmanship. Whoever appears more statesman-like tonight should be the one to win the debate.
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But there's a silver lining. Or, rather, an islet-cell lining. The new studies show that the most important part of the earlier study is true. Some of the insulin-making islet cells lining the pancreascan recover.
This means that if scientists find a way to stop the haywire immune responses that destroy islet cells and cause type 1 diabetes, a patient could be freed from the need for insulin injections. No spleen cells needed.
The new studies show this can be done in mice with type 1 diabetes. And it's possible for humans, suggests Emil R. Unanue, MD, head of the departments of pathology and immunology at Washington University, St. Louis. Unanue [pronounced ew-NAN-uh-way] led one of the three new studies reported in the March 24 issue of Science.
"There is a window of time, soon after an individual loses blood-sugar control, when there is still [islet]-cell function in the pancreas," Unanue tells WebMD. "If at that time you stop the [harmful] immunologic process, you can rescue a level of insulin function that allows the individual to be free of the need for insulin therapy."
How to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
It's going to take two steps to cure type 1 diabetes. The first step is to stop the body's immune system from attacking islet cells. The second step is to get some new islet cells -- by letting surviving cells grow and multiply, by transplanting donor cells, or by encouraging stem cells to become new islet cells.
In 2003, Massachusetts General Hospital researcher Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, and colleagues apparently found a way to do this -- in mice.
They used an immune-boosting substance called CFA that drives hyperactive anti-islet immune cells to suicide. This put destructive immune responses on hold. Then they gave the mice temporary islet-cell transplants to tide them over until they could grow new islet cells. Finally, they gave the mice repeated injections of spleen cells from other mice. It seemed that these spleen cells gave rise to new islet cells.
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BOISE -- Authorities say a wildfire threatening nearly a dozen structures in southwestern Idaho appears to have been caused by a utility vehicle that caught fire along a roadway.
The Boise National Forest said Tuesday the Trinity Ridge Fire has spread to 3,300 acres and could potentially grow very large because of dry conditions and the terrain. The fire started last Friday and is burning in heavy timber about 50 miles east of Boise.
Fire officials were expected to brief local residents at noon in the town of Pine.
A community meeting was also scheduled in the central Idaho town of Stanley, which is less than 20 miles from the state's largest wildfire. The Halstead Fire in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness has burned more than 50 square miles.


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Lithuania: Parliament to consider five separate anti-gay and anti-trans bills 48
11:56 AM — Five separate anti-gay and anti-trans bills are set to be considered in the Lithuanian parliament later this year, including a ban on gender reassignment, a ban on same-sex adoption, regulations of public events, and a legalisation of anti-gay hate speech.
10th September 2013
US: 13-year-old arrested over alleged anti-gay beatings outside gay bar in Ohio 5
12:08 PM — A 13-year-old boy in Cleveland, Ohio has been arrested in connection to a series of attacks against gay men outside a well-known cocktail bar over the past two weekends.
US: Study reveals transgender workers are at greater risk for unemployment and poverty 11
11:08 AM — A new report has revealed that transgender workers in the US experience unemployment at twice the rate of the population as a whole, and are four times more likely to have a household income under $10,000 (£6,400).
9th September 2013
Man urinating in public spits on a motorway services manager and calls him 'gay' 6
1:32 PM — Police in Worcestershire have fined a drunken man £370 after he urinated in front of women and children at a motorway services, then spat on a manager and called him "gay" when challenged.
8th September 2013
Anti-gay MSP who said gay love isn't 'equal' to straight love resigns seat over wife beating offences 32
2:53 PM — MSP Bill Walker, who is a vocal opponent to gay equality, has resigned from Scottish Parliament after being convicted of a series of domestic abuse offences against his three ex-wives.
US: 'Sensational and inspirational' funeral held for gay rights pioneer José Julio Sarria 4
2:19 PM — The funeral for Jusé Julio Sarria, who, before Harvey Milk, was the first openly gay person to run for the US public office in 1961, took place in San Francisco on Friday.
US: Student attempts suicide by 'hanging himself' after teacher bullied him with anti-gay slurs 19
11:57 AM — A student in South Carolina has attempted suicide after a school teacher allegedly used anti-gay slurs against him, calling him "gay," "gay boy," "Mrs Pete," and "Mrs Peters."
6th September 2013
Malta: Law restricting IVF to opposite-sex couples slammed as 'unashamedly homophobic' 4
4:00 PM — Gay rights activists in Malta have criticised a new IVF law as "unashamedly homophobic" because it denies access to medical services to all but opposite-sex couples.
US: San Antonio passes anti-discrimination law for gay and transgender citizens 3
1:53 PM — Leaders in San Antonio, Texas approved a law yesterday providing nondiscrimination protections against gay and transgender residents.
US: Washington Ford's Theatre to produce 15th Anniversary play on murdered Matthew Shepard
12:11 PM — The Ford's Theatre in Washington is to produce a play called "The Laramie Project," based on the young gay man Matthew Shepard murdered in a gay hate crime in 1998.
5th September 2013
Oman: News editor who published sympathetic article about gay life to face public prosecution 8
3:57 PM — Oman's ministry of information has referred the editor of a local newspaper to public prosecution for questioning over a sympathetic article he published last week on the story of a young gay man in the country.
Islamic trans woman: Wiltshire Mosque asked 'inappropriate questions' and discriminated against me 24
12:59 PM — A trans woman who recently converted to Islam has criticised elders at a Wiltshire mosque for refusing to acknowledge her gender identity, although the mosque has denied this allegation and say she is welcome to return at any time.
4th September 2013
Two Derby County football fans punished with three year ban for homophobic chanting 6
4:23 PM — Two Derby County football fans have been banned from attending matches for three years, as well as fined, after they admitted shouting homophobic chants at Brighton supporters during an away game last month.
Video: Dan Savage launches his 'Not All Like That' project for Christians who support gay rights 20
3:46 PM — In a video posted online, gay activist and founder of the 'It Gets Better Project' Dan Savage has launched his new 'Not All Like That' (NALT) campaign for Christians who support LGBT civil rights.
US: Ex-gay therapy newsletter claims it can end homophobic bullying by 'curing' gay people 22
2:23 PM — An ex-gay clinic in the US has released a newsletter declaring "the end of homosexuality," in which parents can help prevent homophobic bullying by participating in its "revolution".
Video: US radio host says 'the Nazi Party started in a gay bar in Munich' 30
12:55 PM — US radio host, Bryan Fischer, who once claimed that Russia's anti-gay laws were "homorealistic," has recently claimed the Nazi Party was started in a Munich gay bar.
US Priest: Christians should no longer 'go gaily into the dark' — the word gay has been 'too distorted' 32
11:28 AM — Father Paul Check, the director of a program which attempts to make gay Catholics live chaste lives, has said that Christians should now go "cheerfully" rather than "gaily" into the dark, as the word gay has been too "distorted."
3rd September 2013
Police appeal for information after homophobic graffiti found on Manchester residence 1
4:35 PM — Manchester police are appealing for information after a house in Golborne was found covered in homophobic graffiti.
Spain: Doctor to be sued after telling patient she could 'cure' his homosexuality 9
3:59 PM — A doctor in Spain is to be sued after telling a young gay man she could "cure" his homosexuality, and that he was "too masculine" to get it into his head that he was gay.
Oman: Newspaper issues front page apology for publishing a sympathetic article about gay life 7
12:26 PM — A newspaper in Oman has printed a front page apology for a sympathetic article it published last week on the story of a young gay man in the country.


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"Here the CIA has done this report a number of years ago," he said. "It's a very thorough report. In fact, it was done by people who were not supportive of the program to begin with. It was very thorough. Any and all abuses were brought to light. Many of those abuses were then referred for possible prosecution to the Department of Justice. It seems to me that the CIA did everything that is was supposed to have done and yet now, both the organization and the individuals concerned are being subject to double jeopardy."
Grenier condemned the interrogation tactics that were unauthorized and pointed echoed some of the IG report's conclusions which noted that the detention program improved as time went on, and noted that prior to 9/11 the CIA simply did not have the capacity to interrogate Islamic terrorists.
"You can't have people who are freelancing. Unfortunately, I think in the very early days, apparently there was a certain amount of freelancing that took place," Grenier said. "It takes time to develop a disciplined, professional program…Part of the problem here was that the CIA got into this business and was trying to construct a locomotive as it was going 60 miles down the track."
In some ways, the much anticipated report raises more questions than it provides answers. During the two year investigation, for example, Helgerson and his staff viewed most of the 92 videotapes made of Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri's interrogations but noted that 21 hours of interrogations were missing. The missing hours include the two waterboarding sessions of al-Nashiri.
The announcement today by the Obama administration in some ways tries to address the underlying question posed by Helgerson and his report: Did torture work?
The CIA released two intelligence reports that former Vice President Richard Cheney had called to be declassified. Last May, Cheney claimed the reports showed that the CIA's interrogation program worked. The reports, while noting the valuable intelligence that came from detainee interrogations, do not specifically address which tactics worked, and which did not.
The IG report concluded the same. "There is no doubt," the report stated, "that the Program has been effective. Measuring the effectiveness of [enhanced interrogation techniques] however, is a more subjective process and not without some concern."


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Find Linux Journal on irc.freenode.net, #linuxjournal. Join us in the room any time for some quick help, support or witty banter.
New to IRC? From Wikipedia, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is, "a protocol for live interactive Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing.Client software is available for every major operating system that supports Internet access."
Once in a chat room, these user IRC commands will help you get around:
- /? - List Commands
- /ABOUT - Displays information about the chat room
- /CHANNEL or /CH [channel] - Change channels
- /CHANNEL by itself to list channels and subjects
- /CLEAR - Clears the screen by sending a bunch of blank lines
- /DO [action] - Displays an action like "Yourname [action]"
- /HELP - Displays this help screen
- /INFO or /I - Displays info about logins, users on,current time
- /LIST or /L - Lists people on this channel
- /LISTALL or /LA - List people on all channels
- /MSG - Displays a list of messages
- /PAGE or /P [user] - Pages a user
- /QUIT or /Q - Exit the chat room
- /RECENT or /R - Lists recent users of the chat room
- /ROLL or /.#d% - Rolls #, % sided dice
- /SET [variable] [value] - Sets a variable
- /SET by itself for a list of variables
- /SHOW or /S - Displays status of user variables
- /WHISPER or /WH [user][message] - Sends a message to a specific user
- /YELL or /Y[text] - Send a message to all users on all channels
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None of the messengers nowadays can replace the feeling of chatting like it was in mIRC. I agree you with you friend, it was great time to remember.
Long live IRC indeed
It is a great program, I still remember the time we spend, but it was a long time ago...
Client software exists for various operating systems, as well as web-based. Many different clients are available for the various operating systems, including Linux, Windows, Unix, Mac OS, and mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS.
In the footer of this very page you can access Linux Journal's IRC room via the web, not needing to load any software on your end at all. Give it a try.
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A 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 21-year-old neighbour in Siddapur in Uttara Kannada district on Tuesday.
According to Siddapur police, the girl was sexually assaulted by her neighbour in a village in the taluk. The accused tried to convince the girl to marry him. She turned the proposal down and filed a complaint with the police. The police have arrested the man.Woman and son rescued
A 32-year-old woman and her five-year-old son, who were being carried away by high waves at Malpe beach were rescued by local people on Wednesday.
The Malpe police said Shilpa (32), her two daughters Devika (12) and Aishwarya (10), and her son Surya Yadav (5) had come to Malpe beach at around 10 a.m.
Surya went to play in the sea, but was pulled in by the waves. Ms. Shilpa jumped into the water to save him, but she too got carried away in the current. When the children and others on the beach started shouting, some local persons nearby jumped into the water and rescued both the mother and son.
Malpe police reached the spot and took the mother and son to the hospital. While the mother was admitted to the District Government Hospital in Udupi, the boy has been admitted to Adarsh Hospital. Both are receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Units of the two hospitals.
The family resides in Sulibele near Hosakote in Bangalore Rural District. The family was on a pilgrimage trip and had come to Udupi after visiting Dharmasthala. Ms. Shilpa's husband Anand had left for Udupi after he was informed of the incident, the police said.
A police official said Home Guards should be deployed at Malpe beach to warn the people against getting into the sea. People who came from other districts, especially from the plains (or above the Ghats), had no idea about the strength of the waves and needed to be dissuaded from venturing too deep into the sea or swimming in it, he said.
Superintendent of Police M.B. Boralingaiah said the Home Guards were being deployed at the Malpe beach on rotation every three months. But for the last few days, they were not there. They were expected to be deployed soon. Currently, a couple of police constables would be present at the beach during the peak hours to dissuade people from getting into the sea, he said.
Prashanth Shetty, District Commandant, Home Guards, said his office had forwarded the renewal request for putting Home Guards at Malpe beach from the District Administration to the Bangalore office of the Home Guards. "As soon as it is sanctioned from Bangalore, we will deploy Home Guards. The renewal is being done once in three months," he said.'Molester' held
A 25-year-old courier boy was arrested for allegedly molesting a 17-year-old girl on the NITK beach in Mulki police station limits on Wednesday.
The police said the girl screamed when Ranjit (25), who knew the girl, made undue advances towards her. Passers-by rushed to her rescue and caught Ranjit. He was then brought to the police station. On the complaint filed by the girl, the police arrested Ranjit.House robbed
Rs. 2.4 lakh in cash, some American dollars and other articles were stolen from the house of Dolphy Alwyn in Subbaikodi in Bajpe police station limits on Wednesday. The police said Dolphy Alwyn locked his house in the morning and went to his relative's house. When he returned a few hours later, Mr. Alwyn noticed that the rear door was broken open. The thieves made away with 40 American dollars, a mobile phone and an ATM card, apart from Rs. 2.4 lakh in cash.Farmer dies
A 65-year-old farmer died after he slipped into a pond in his field at Mandekollu village, Sullia taluk on Wednesday. The Sullia Police said Sheshappa Gowda slipped into the lake around 11 p.m.Areca theft
More than 100 kg of arecanut, cumulatively worth Rs. 24,000, was stolen from a shop at Kaliya village, Belthangady taluk some time on Tuesday night, said the Belthangady police.
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