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The Russian Aerospace Defense Forces again dismissed US media rumors of a Russian military satellite allegedly exploding above the United States.

"These statements are yet another attempt to find out the location of the space object after the United States has lost track of it," Aerospace Defense Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said.

He reiterated that all Russian spacecraft function in normal regime and ground control services have steady control over them. No malfunctions have been reported in the past days, according to the spokesman.

No malfunctions have been reported in the past days, the spokesman said.

A spokesman for the US Strategic Command told RIA Novosti earlier in the day that the Russian reconnaissance satellite re-entered the atmosphere and crashed last week.

On September 3, the American Meteor Society revealed more than 30 reports from alleged eyewitnesses who said they had seen a big fireball streaking across the sky. Website spaceflight101.com, dedicated to covering spaceflight events, assumed the fireball could have been Kosmos-2495 falling apart in the air.

Kosmos-2495, a member of the Yantar Russian satellite series, was launched on May 6, 2014, designed to operate on a low Earth orbit.

earlier related report US Strategic Command Confident About Russian Military Satellite Crash Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 18, 2014 - Russian reconnaissance satellite Kosmos-2495 re-entered the atmosphere and crashed last week, a spokesman for the US Strategic Command told RIA Novosti on Friday.

"US Strategic Command's Joint Functional Component Command for Space [JFCC Space] through the Joint Space Operations Center [JSpOC] assesses with high confidence that Kosmos-2495 re-entered the atmosphere and was removed from the US satellite catalog as a decayed object on September 3," the spokesman said.

The Russian Defense Ministry previously denied media reports of a Russian military satellite allegedly exploding over the territory of the United States.

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By ALEXIS ZOTOS 6 News Reporter

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Social media is now so integrated into our lives that it's playing a role in criminal investigations.

This weekend two people wanted in a homicide case posted a picture on their Facebook accounts with the words "last pic. Will love you till the end." Soon after, Pigeon Forge police found them at Wendy's on the Parkway.

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Deputies in Whitley County, Kentucky say pictures posted on Facebook led them to a marijuana growing operation. The man seen posing in front of the plants in the photos was arrested along with his father.

Social media has become a powerful tool for many law enforcement agencies. The Knox County Sheriff's Office says it's changing the way they protect and serve.

We know if we put a suspect's picture up, we know we have all these eyeballs seeing it on Facebook, explained KCSO spokesperson Martha Dooley.

KCSO was one of the first law enforcement agencies in East Tennessee to get a website. Now through Twitter and Facebook, they reach thousands in an effort to get information out to the public as quickly as possible. Investigators are also using social media to gather information.

Investigations is about communication. Any way we can communicate with our witnesses, victims, suspects, any way we can communicate the better, explained Lt. Aaron Yarnell.

Lt. Yarnell says they use social media on a daily basis, using people's profiles to track down information and find people that can help further an investigation.

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Break the chain of infection. Practice hand hygiene

Did you know that 35 to 40 percent of infections could have been prevented by simply observing hand hygiene? It was one of the take-away messages at a recent media conference held announcing the nationwide search for the Philippines first Hospital Best Practices in Infection Prevention and Control awards. Led by the Philippine Hospital Association (PHA), in collaboration with United Laboratories, Inc. (UNILAB) and the Philippine Hospital Infection Control Society (PHICS, Inc.), the search aims to highlight the level of excellence being practiced by public and private hospitals in the country.

Our objective is to elevate every hospitals awareness level on the importance of infection control and prevention of healthcare associated infections. To ensure that hospitals and other healthcare facilities are properly implementing infection prevention and control practices in their respective institutions. And, to encourage every hospital to maintain the highest standards in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections, says PHA president Dr. Ruben Flores.

He adds, Many hospitals in the Philippines have set the bar of excellence in hospital care, particularly in the area of infection prevention and control, which, as any healthcare professional would know, are the two key elements to delivering the highest level of quality service and safety to patients.

10 OUT OF 100

Infections acquired in the healthcare setting are quite common, albeit alarming. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), of every 100 hospitalized patients at any given time, 10 in developing countries will acquire at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI).

PHICS founder Dr. Melencia Velmonte elaborates, When we say HAI, it is all encompassing. It does not single out hospitals but includes same-day surgical centers, ambulatory outpatient care in health care clinics, and long-term facilities. It includes the smallest unit where one delivers healthcare.

Among the common HAI has been identified as catheter-related urinary tract infection, surgical site infection, blood stream infection, and pneumonia.

That is why there are five crucial moments where hand hygiene should be properly observed. These are before patient contact, before aseptic task, after body fluid exposure risk, after patient contact, and after contact with patient surroundings, enumerates Dr. Velmonte.

She continues, The first two moments are to protect the patient against harmful germs carried by your hands, including the patients own germs entering his or her body. The succeeding moments are to protect yourself and the healthcare environment from harmful patient germs.

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Srinagar, India: Early this week, as the flooding in Kashmir was entering a new and terrifying phase, the Indian army's public information office received a call from Raheel Khursheed, a former journalist and digital obsessive who serves as the director of news, politics and government at Twitter India. He had a proposal.

Over the weekend, floodwaters had inundated ground-floor equipment rooms for most of the region's telecommunications service providers, crashing mobile-phone networks across the state. Local officials had no way to contact the federal government, or each other, or the army, which had been mobilized as part of a rescue effort. Although the army has satellite phones, they were of little help without knowing where people were waiting for rescue.

There was one place where information was flowing at a nearly unmanageable volume, and that was on social media.

So many messages were surging into Twitter under the hashtag #KashmirFloods that Tuesday, Khursheed's colleagues commissioned a piece of code that could winnow out those that identified stranded people. He then called the Indian army - which has only two officers permanently assigned to monitor social-media postings - to offer the authorities a slimmed-down, organized feed that he described as "a continuously updating stream of 'save me's.'"

"We are always organizing data at Twitter," said Khursheed, 31. "It just seemed to me to be the most obvious thing to do: How is it that we can, as a platform, make it easier for the army to do what it needs to do?"

In this week's frantic rescue effort, one unexpected development is the army's use of Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook to reach families. Twenty years ago, when social media first emerged, India's government - like its counterparts in Beijing and Moscow - regarded it warily, as a force that could undermine state power. In the restive, majority-Muslim region of Kashmir, in particular, state authorities have been swift to block access to material it considered incendiary.

However, as this week's rescue efforts suggest, "the government is now seeking to conduct its business through these media," said Samir Saran, a policy analyst who worked as telecommunications executive in the early 2000s.

One driver of this change, he said, is the new prime minister, Narendra Modi, who regards social media as a central link to the public. Modi's example has filtered through the system. "If they see a man at the top embracing this form of communication - when you have someone who is bypassing traditional media and communicating this way - that is a sign," said Saran, a senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, a policy research group based in New Delhi. "You don't have to be told more."

Relief efforts continued Friday in Srinagar, where rescue workers described watching people tie dead bodies to trees and electrical poles to keep them from washing away. Facing mounting public anger, Omar Abdullah, the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, told NDTV, a news channel, that during the first days of the crisis, as floodwaters inundated the capital, "I had no government."

"My secretariat, the police headquarters, the control room, fire services, hospitals, all the infrastructure was underwater," he said. "I had no cellphone and no connectivity. I am now starting to track down ministers and officers. Today I met ministers who were swept up by the floods."

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