WASHINGTON Adidas Pure Boost 2.0 Australia , Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Secret Service is "starved for leadership" and needs to improve training after upgrading the White House fence, an independent panel said in its Thursday review.
The review revealed deep problems of the Secret Service, including "too insular". The panel also has been told by many Secret Service members that the leadership needs to be strengthened.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson appointed an independent panel in October after an intruder climbed the fence and made it into the White House.
"The panel believes strongly that the fence around the White House needs to be changed as soon as possible to provide better protection,"the review said. It recommends to increase the fence height by four or five feet and "curves outward at the top to give agents more time to assess the risk of a jumper."
However, the review also noted that the agency's problems "go deeper than a few fence can fix."
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The last Secret Service director Julia Pierson resigned under fierce criticism on Oct. 1, after the Sept. 19 White House intrusion.
The agency's training regimen is far below acceptable levels, it said. The average special agent receiving only 42 hours of training.
Johnson praised "the panel's recommendations are astute, thorough and fair."
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RIO DE JANEIRO, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Authorities have seized more than 45kg of expired food during a raid of Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium, the showpiece venue for next year's Olympic Games.
Agents from local consumer protection watchdog Procon found the products during Sunday's soccer derby between Fluminense and Botafogo, Procon said in a statement on Monday.
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The Maracana stadium hosted last year's FIFA World Cup final between Germany and Argentina after undergoing a three-year, 500 million US-dollar upgrade.
The venue will also stage the opening and closing ceremonies, and soccer, at next year's Olympic Games.
Procon did not say if a penalty would be applied to the stadium's operator Consorcio Maracana
The government organ inspected the stadium after fans missed the start of the Flamengo-Botafogo match the previous week due to long queues to redeem tickets bought online.
Consorcio Maracana could not be reached for comment on Monday.
It is not the first food scare to hit Rio's hospitality sector as it prepares for a major sporting event.
Health inspectors found more than 50kg of food deemed unfit for consumption at the England and Italy team hotels just weeks before last year's World Cup.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Research conducted by the University of Michigan (UM) and the Leuven School for Mass Communication Research in Belgium found that higher binge-viewing frequency leads to poorer sleep quality, more fatigue and increased insomnia.
Regular TV viewing does not have this problem, the research concluded.
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Some 81 percent of the respondents reported that they had binge-watched. Of this group, nearly 40 percent did it once during the month preceding the study, while 28 percent said they did it a few times. About 7 percent had binge-viewed almost every day during the preceding month. Men binge-watched less frequently than women Mizuno Wave Rider 17 Australia , but the viewing session nearly doubled that of women.
Respondents indicated they slept seven hours and 37 minutes on average, and those who binge-viewed reported more fatigue and poor sleep quality compared to those who didn't binge-watch.
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The study showed that increased cognitive arousal prior to sleep is the mechanism explaining the effects of binge viewing on sleep quality.
After binge-watching TV shows, one usually has a racing heart or one that beats irregularly, and is mentally alert. This can create arousal, which in turn prolongs sleep onset and leads to poor sleep quality.
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Sleep insufficiency has been connected to physical and mental health consequences, including reduced memory function and learning ability, obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
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