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U.S. The Salt Lake Tribune ROTC may move from BYU to UVU after colonel bristles at Honor Code The Salt Lake Tribune   Fri, Jan 27 10:00 AM PST   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Share   Tweet   Email "I told the (university) president in an interview that I would happily abide by the Honor Code on campus, in uniform and on duty, but if I wanted to have a cup of coffee at my house, they said, 'No, that's not acceptable,' " Hogan told the The Daily Universe in an article it published online Thursday. Hogan is on a three-year assignment from the Air Force, and BYU did not approve a request to waive the Honor Code requirements, he said. BYU "didn't recognize me as a professor," Hogan told the paper. "They wouldn't allow me to instruct, and that's one of the requirements for me as the commander." On Friday, Hogan confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune his statements to the student paper. Defense Department ... Read more ...

Celebrity Fortune Bill Gates Says These Are the Jobs He Would Drop Out of College for Today Stephen Gandel   8 hours ago   Comments   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Share   Tweet   Email Bill Gates is often called Harvard’s most famous dropout. He notably ditched the top university in 1975 to found , and became the world’s richest man. Looking back, Gates has said he was lucky that computers were a hobby and an obsession of his at a time when they were just starting to change the world. But speaking on Friday at another Ivy League university, Columbia University, along with fellow billionaire and famous investor Warren Buffett, Gates said that if he were to drop out of college today there’s a limited chance he would end up in the computer industry, and likely not in developing operating software for companies. Roughly 1,000 people, mostly students, gathered on the campus to hear the two billionaires speak. To be clear, Gat...

World Japan Sees Chinese Groups Backing Okinawa Independence Activists Bloomberg   9 hours ago   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Share   Tweet   Email Chinese universities and think tanks are forming ties with Okinawan independence groups in a bid to divide public opinion in Japan, a Japanese government agency said in an annual report. There was no immediate response to a request for comment from China’s foreign ministry. Asia’s two largest economies are in dispute over the ownership of a group of uninhabited islets near Taiwan, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. Official media in China have also suggested that Beijing should refuse to accept Japanese sovereignty over the main islands of Okinawa, which maintained ties with both countries prior to annexation by Japan in the 19th century. Tensions between Okinawa and mainland Japan ... Read more

Defense Department Says China Seized U.S. Navy Vehicle Bloomberg Video   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Share   Tweet   Email Defense Department Says China Seized U.S. Navy Vehicle Dec.16 -- China unlawfully seized an “unmanned underwater vehicle” in the South China Sea while it was being recovered by a U.S. Navy oceanographic survey ship, U.S. Defense Dept says in e-mailed statement. Bloomberg’s John Fraher reports on “Bloomberg Markets.” World China's aircraft carrier to drill in Western Pacific Reuters   Sun, Dec 25 5:49 AM PST   Comments   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Share   Tweet   Email BEIJING (Reuters) - China's first aircraft carrier will carry out drills in the Western Pacific, in what the navy called part of routine exercises, amid renewed tension over self-ruled Taiwan that Beijing claims as its own. The navy said in a statement late...

World Turkish officials identify assailant who shot Russian ambassador as off-duty riot policeman Catherine Garcia, The Week (RSS)   19 hours ago   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Share   Tweet   Email Officials have identified the assailant who shot and killed the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday as Mevlut Mert Altintas, a 22-year-old off-duty Turkish police officer. He gunned down Andrei Karlov, 62, as the ambassador gave a speech in Ankara. The attack was filmed and shared widely on social media, and the shooter was heard shouting, "Don't forget Syria and Aleppo!" He was later shot and killed by security forces. Russia is an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and has intervened militarily in the country's civil war; Turkey has backed some groups of opposition forces. In a televised statement, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the murder a "provocation" meant to harm ... Read more

World Iranian vessel points weapon at U.S. helicopter: officials By Idrees Ali, Reuters   1 hour 15 minutes ago   Comments   Sign in to like   Reblog on Tumblr   Share   Tweet   Email By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapon at a U.S. military helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, two U.S. defense officials told Reuters on Monday, an action they described as "unsafe and unprofessional." The incident is the latest in a series of similar actions by Iranian vessels this year, but the first reported since Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8. During his campaign, Trump vowed that any Iranian vessel that harassed the U.S. Navy in the Gulf would be "shot out of the water," if he was elected. Trump is due to take office on Jan. 20. There was no immediate Iranian comment on the incident. Trump's transition team did not immediate...