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Utah man passes airport security with stolen boarding pass

2015-11-27 18:06:48| Airlines - Topix.net

A sex offender with a stolen boarding pass got through airport security in Salt Lake City and checked in at a gate for a flight to California before he was caught earlier this month, authorities have disclosed. Michael Salata, 61, was arrested on Nov. 5 after boarding the Southwest Airlines flight, according to jail records obtained Thursday.

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Jamaicas Sangster International Airport deploys electronic boarding passes

2015-11-24 01:00:00| Airport Technology

MBJ Airports, a consortium operating Jamaicas Sangster International Airport, has announced that the airport will accept electronic boarding passes (EBP) as part of the security screening process.

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As CO2 passes 400ppm, what goes up might not come down

2015-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere once again exceeded 400 parts per million Monday, but this time they may never fall back down, according to scientists. While not a tipping point that signals climate catastrophe, the 400 ppm mark is an important symbolic threshold in the fight against climate change. It represents a 43 percent jump in greenhouse gases since pre-industrial times and underscores governments' inaction and worsening global warming impacts. Scientists at the Mauna...

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Facebook passes 1 bln daily users in Q3

2015-11-04 23:53:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Facebook passed 1 billion active daily users in the third quarter, an increase of 17 percent year-on-year and up from 968 million in the previous quarter. Of the total, 894 million accessed the social network each day over a mobile device, up 27 percent from a year ago. Monthly active users rose 14 percent year-on-year to 1.55 billion at the end of September, including 1.39 billion mobile users. Advertising revenues from Facebook rose at an even faster rate of 45 percent in the third quarter, and mobile accounted for 78 percent of the USD 4.30 billion in ad revenues. Total revenues at the company increased 41 percent year-on-year to USD 4.50 billion, while operating profit was up only 4 percent to USD 1.46 billion, after a 68 percent increase in operating costs. Net profit rose 11 percent to USD 896 million, and adjusted earnings were up 33 percent to USD 0.57 per share. Facebook generated USD 1.41 billion in free cash flow in the quarter and finished the period with total cash of USD 15.83 billion.

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