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Jun272020 by adminNo Comments

‘The nation is counting on you’: CIA’s thrilling advert to recruit more diverse candidates

Technology

The CIA has launched a recruitment campaign across online video streaming websites, emphasising the value that women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds bring to the agency.The thrilling commercial - which could play out before audiences watch a geopolitical drama - stars a number of young actors, with the majority of speaking roles belonging to women. It's the first time the agency has run such ads, and comes as intelligence communities across the world face challenging competition from the private sector to recruit the best candidates. Image: Graphs showing diversity in US intelligence community in 2018. Pic: US ODNI The agency's director Gina Haspel - who is the first woman to hold the post on a permanent basis - has descri...

Nov272018 by adminNo Comments

Breast cancer tumors may recruit bone marrow cells for growth

Health

Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Breast cancer tumors can grow by recruiting other cells from bone marrow, lowering the chances of a patient's survival, a new study says. A study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine found that cells found in breast cancer tumors can strengthen themselves by pulling in non-cancerous fibroblasts originally formed in bone marrow called mesenchymal stromal cells, or MSCs. "Our study shows that the recruitment of bone marrow-derived fibroblasts is important for promoting tumor growth, likely by enhancing blood vessel formation," Neta Erez, researcher at Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, said in a press release. Researchers from Tel Aviv University tested mice with breast cancer and noticed many fibroblasts from MSCs within the tumor. The fibroblast...

Apr92018 by adminNo Comments

E.J. Montgomery: Kentucky lands five-star recruit

Sports

April 9 (UPI) -- Five-star high school basketball prospect E.J. Montgomery has decided to take his talents to the University of Kentucky.The 6-foot-10, 215-pound forward from Wheeler High School in Marietta, Ga. announced the decision on Monday."First I want to thank God for this amazing opportunity, without him none of this would be possible," Montgomery wrote on Twitter Monday afternoon. "Next I would like to thank my parents, high school coaches and Atlanta Celtics program for helping and guiding me throughout this process. Lastly I would like to thank all the schools and coaches that took the time to recruit me.""I appreciate all the relationships that were built over the course of the recruiting process. I learned a lot about each and every school during the process thanks to all #BBN...

Oct302017 by adminNo Comments

Face to face with a British IS recruit

World

A grammar school boy from High Wycombe who was captured in Syria trying to flee Islamic State has insisted he spent most of his three years in terrorist territory playing PlayStation and riding his bike.Shabazz Suleman, who had his 22nd birthday in a Free Syrian Army jail on the Turkish border, told Sky News he had made a "naive" mistake by joining the terror group.Suleman is now desperate to return to the UK - making his plea to come back days after Government minister Rory Stewart said the "only way" to deal with British IS fighters is to kill them "in almost every case"."Yeah, I made the wrong choice," he said from a secret location in northern Syria, where he spoke to us in his first face-to-face interview since being detained.Suleman said he had doubts about the Islamic extremists abo...

Oct42017 by adminNo Comments

New England Under-21s recruit Jack Harrison forks out £1,200 to join squad after missed flight

Sports

New England Under-21s recruit Jack Harrison is paying to play for his country after almost being grounded by a missed flight.The New York City forward was late for his original trip from America on Sunday but forked out £1,200 from his own pocket to book himself on the next plane to London.Harrison then had to come up from Heathrow to St George's Park near Burton to link up with the Young Lions ahead of their Euro 2019 qualifiers against Scotland on Friday and Andorra next Tuesday, eventually arriving late on Monday.It was his first call-up after he replaced Sheyi Ojo but Harrison, who had played in New York City's 1-1 draw at Chicago Fire on Saturday, admitted his plans were initially up in the air.He said: "We flew back from Chicago and landed at Westchester Airport. I then had to go hom...