Formally called international mobile subscriber identity-catchers or IMSI-catchers, they also can capture the contents of calls and data use.
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According to the city's acting police chief, Sanit Mahathavorn, the "catchers of Pokémon catchers" will be using the their mobile phone cameras to record offenders flouting the rules.
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The body of work between our two catchers (Barnes and Yasmani Grandal), the way they hit and their defensive metrics, make them to me the best pair of catchers in baseball.
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In the video, Surrey Creep Catchers president Ryan Laforge and a member of Tri-Cities Creep Catchers accuse the man of wanting to have sex with the teen in a school bathroom.
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Spring training, though, is often a valuable time for pitchers and catchers to get to know one another, as catchers seek to learn not only a pitcher's repertoire but also his personality.
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The Calgary and Winnipeg police, which told me last year that they've denied every information request regarding IMSI catchers, or concluded that no records exist, have now both admitted to using IMSI catchers.
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This is certainly good news for the Cardinals remaining catchers.
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Laforge admits that Creep Catchers might push a predator underground.
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"I think he's one of the best" catchers, Baker said.
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But that's the case with any tool, including IMSI catchers.
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C Manny Pina is one of only four catchers batting .
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But, pitchers and catchers report to spring training on Feb.
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Sometimes they'd sing camp songs, and leave behind dream catchers.
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Our manager and our catchers all do a nice job.
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The most wary fled long before the catchers got near.
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The most wary fled long before the catchers got near.
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VICE News goes in search of IMSI catchers across London.
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As Ramos did his drills, so did three other catchers.
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The snake catchers politely waited for the reptile finish its meal.
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Big-league catchers run the pitching staff, and he did that.
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Just 106 days until pitchers and catchers report to spring training.
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The M3D Twisty Earbud Catchers aren't available for sale anywhere, however.
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He has 12 this year, the most among American League catchers.
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He leads American League catchers with eight doubles and is batting .
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Some IMSI catchers are capable of intercepting texts and phone calls.
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Pitchers with gravitas are occasionally paired with catchers of their choice.
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On the season, he is third among MLB catchers in hits.
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The public's confidence in the nation's spy catchers would be restored.
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Catchers: Wilson Ramos has been well received by the pitching staff.
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So-called International Mobile Subscriber Identity-catchers, or IMSI-catchers — known as Stingrays after a popular brand used by U.S. police departments — work by tricking cellphones into locking onto the device instead of a legitimate cellphone tower.
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Other listings heavily suggest the export of IMSI-catchers too: one granted application to export to Iraq is for a "Wideband Passive GSM Monitoring System," which is a more technical description of what many IMSI-catchers do.
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" As early as 1873, famed sportswriter Henry Chadwick was discussing the importance of signals between catchers and pitchers, suggesting catchers "always have a sign ready so as to signalize the pitcher where to send in the ball.
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The Braves are carrying three catchers — Flowers, Kurt Suzuki and Anthony Recker.
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The process is all about participation of volunteers, visitors, and souvenir catchers.
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Major league pitchers and catchers are reporting today for their first workouts.
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VICE News approached a company selling IMSI catchers using an online marketplace.
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Castro ranks second in the major leagues among catchers with 16 RBIs.
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He's also regarded as one of the greatest catchers of all time.
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In BC, a police officer was caught by the Creep Catchers group.
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It's impossible to say how many IMSI catchers the RCMP currently has.
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Richdale also revealed two previously unknown uses of IMSI catchers in Canada.
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CellXion sells IMSI catchers and other surveillance equipment, according to company brochures.
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He also recorded his 13th caught stealing, second most among rookie catchers.
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This invokes painful imagery of slave catchers and runaway enslaved Africans. pic.twitter.
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He is also one of the country's best defensive catchers, recording a .
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Managers are traditionally former position players, and most often are former catchers.
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Astros' pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training on Wednesday, February 12th.
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Later, Nancy is raped and beaten by a band of slave catchers.
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The dolls wear bell-bottoms and shirts with dream catchers on them.
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He's widely regarded as one of the best defensive catchers of all time.
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The man called snake catchers Sally and Norman Hill to apprehend the python.
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Contreras has 16 home runs, which is second in the NL among catchers.
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As such, it's not surprising that some studies have shown catchers age poorly.
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Roden started out trying to grab the snake's head, as snake catchers do.
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Turns out there are such things as cat burglars and cat burglar catchers.
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Rooftop rain catchers feed a 70,000-liter cistern; a filtering system provides water.
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Catchers make great physical sacrifices for the most intimate experience of game immersion.
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For most teams, pitchers and catchers officially reported to spring training on Monday.
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What's needed is an independent method of identifying IMSI catchers in the wild.
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But he's got a chance in a Bengals offense desperate for pass catchers.
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Thursday afternoon, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies swapped backup catchers.
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The process is all about participation of volunteers, visitors, and souvenir catchers. pic.twitter.
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For former catchers, the bullpen is often the start of a coaching resume.
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And there was the presence of Wright in the meetings with the catchers.
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On a roster packed with capable catchers, that could be a tricky goal.
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They have combined for 15 homers, the most for any N.L. team's catchers.
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Gsellman also had to start amid an infield configuration that included two catchers.
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It was the man-catchers—Ryland's Hounds of the North—who'd got me.
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The SPS has been using the IMSI catchers to stop inmates from communicating.
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Umpires and catchers know this, so catchers tend to have an almost reflexive response: They will spear a ball from the dirt, transfer it quickly to their throwing hand, and hold it up for the ump to keep or reject.
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Two other snake catchers died in the same area in the last five months.
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Pitchers and catchers began showing up at camps, but the official start is Thursday.
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And it was [when]he went out, and our catchers always did, introduce themselves.
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"With catchers, there's a cumulative effect ... it's important to let them recover," Counsell said.
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I just want to make this distinction: Justin doesn't affiliate himself with Creep Catchers.
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The RBI was his 40th, good for second in the National League among catchers.
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Only four catchers other than Piazza have hit 40 home runs in a season.
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In that series, managers Joe Girardi and Mike Matheny were catchers for St. Louis.
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In today's puzzle, Mr. Kwong is talking about soundwaves, and those catchers are EARDRUMS.
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Rookie wide receiver Sterling Shepard said coaches were trying to get pass catchers prepared.
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He said he often reminded his own catchers to back up against certain hitters.
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Refining his changeup, and trusting the catchers' game plan, has made him a force.
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Rat catchers snagged the disease-carrying rodents that once ran rampant in residential neighborhoods.
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Mets catchers haven't hit all year—as a group they've averaged .194/.292/.6.
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UK police forces have long shrouded their use of IMSI catchers in extreme secrecy.
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But running back is not a position where Carolina has any star pass catchers.
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"We googled how to deal with pedophiles, and Creep Catchers came up," he says.
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Statistically, both are average major league catchers, a hard truth about their grueling position.
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They are nonvenomous, excellent mouse catchers, and they are illegal to kill in Iowa.
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Slave catchers haunt the underground river, but May is clever and staunch, even heroic.
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We discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] IMSI catchers, Raspberry Pis, PGP, phishing telcos and stealing cryptocurrency.
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Traditionally, UK authorities have declined to release much information, if any, on IMSI catchers.
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The real eye-catchers are the dirty dishes stacked in the sink behind her.
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Turner's wife Cherry, played by Aja Naomi King, also is raped by slave catchers.
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IMSI catchers exist for phones on GSM networks as well as 3G and 4G.
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Conger opened the season as one of the Rays' two catchers but hit just .194.
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Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle deemed it "open season" on catchers after the play went unpunished.
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The Yankees' first spring training workout for pitchers and catchers is set for Feb. 19.
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We have catchers, which seems as good a name as receiver but was already taken.
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In 2014 Major League Baseball amended its rules to prevent base-runners and catchers colliding.
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But he believes Creep Catchers are necessary for the people who won't be so forthcoming.
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Some of the first pee-catchers looked like urine condoms and came in three sizes.
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Henry cried out as the slave catchers -- the police, the ICE of their day -- approached.
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They started seven of the same position players in both games, switching only the catchers.
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The RCMP also essentially authorized itself to use IMSI catchers during Clemenza, court documents indicate.
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The lack of run production made no difference with Slovis finding pass-catchers so effectively.
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The Boilermakers targeted 13 different pass catchers, with freshman receiver Jackson Anthrop leading the way.
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Girardi and Angels Manager Mike Scioscia were major league catchers for a combined 28 years.
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Two crews of nine catchers can bring in about seventy-five thousand chickens a night.
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Getting low allows catchers to make a better presentation of the pitch to the umpire.
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Pitchers and catchers also use them, but as a reference guide for their complex signs.
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One obvious solution — letting catchers call the pitches — simply won't happen; coaches oppose relinquishing control.
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The catchers seek one another's input during games, and the pitchers skillfully follow their advice.
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Red Sox pitchers and catchers reported to camp Tuesday and have their first workout Wednesday.
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He made the case that even teams likely out of playoff contention still needed catchers.
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At issue are what are known alternatively as Stingrays, IMSI catchers or cell-site simulators.
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In addition to catchers using signs to request specific pitches—the apparent target of Boston's operation—pitchers signal their acknowledgement or disagreement, catchers and bench coaches indicate how defensive players should position themselves, and base coaches send directives to batters and baserunners about upcoming plays.
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When she's gang raped by slave catchers, Nat begs his master for permission to visit her.
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And many running backs provide much of their value as pass catchers, not rushers, these days.
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"It saw her and shot into her Ugg boot," said Snake Catchers Adelaide manager Rolly Burrell.
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They lined up all the Latino employees — seven chicken catchers — with their faces against a wall.
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A woman and two men in U.S. military dress stood near a booth selling dream catchers.
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Zunino has 22 RBIs in June, setting a team record for catchers in one month. 3.
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Camp's criticisms about Creep Catchers' tactics have been echoed many times over: They have no oversight.
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The balcony came with an Instagram-friendly swinging chair, woven in the style of dream catchers.
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With pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training this week, it's time to think of running.
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Law enforcement agencies around the world use the technology, and sometimes criminals deploy IMSI catchers too.
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Boston catchers excelled on defense, ranking third in the majors at framing, according to Baseball Prospectus.
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The Giants were without their leading pass catchers, tight end Evan Engram and receiver Golden Tate.
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Even if Ivan Rodriguez makes it this time, on his first try, catchers are still underrepresented.
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The Red Sox reportedly executed a scheme to steal hand signals from opponents' catchers in games.
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He mentioned his stockpile of four catchers who could work in the major leagues this season.
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The services are usually 18+, but the creep catchers use profile pictures that look barely legal.
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According to the defence, "thousands" of innocents were likely surveilled with IMSI catchers during Project Clemenza alone.
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As far as European spy-catchers are concerned, the Cold War is back — if it ever ended.
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C Juan Graterol was promoted from Triple-A after the rosters expanded, giving the Angels three catchers.
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But when pitchers and catchers reported to spring training in mid-February, numerous marquee names remained unsigned.
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The Creep Catchers are a loosely organized collective of vigilante pedophile hunters, their chapters crisscross the country.
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Tampa Bay has gotten limited offensive production from their catchers this season, so it's a promising start.
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Catchers: "Framing" (getting borderline pitches called for strikes) has become one of baseball's most highly coveted skills.
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The team also swapped catchers, sending Austin Barnes to Triple-A Oklahoma City and recalling Will Smith.
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Canadian police have been extraordinarily unforthcoming when it comes to the use of IMSI catchers, or StingRays.
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One of Baldelli's priorities was keeping players rested, a strategy that worked especially well with his catchers.
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The House Science Committee is holding a hearing on threats from IMSI 'Stingray' catchers at 85033 p.m.
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The House Committee on Science will hold a hearing on the threat of ISMI catchers on Wednesday.
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Perez said young catchers now had the tools to run a sophisticated game plan despite their inexperience.
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The team got almost no production from its catchers, and a vaunted rotation hobbled to the finish.
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Kansas City's Salvador Perez has hit 52 home runs since 2015 - tops among all major-league catchers.
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Milwaukee catchers have thrown out a major league-leading 21 runners attempting to steal this season. 3.
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The significance and threat from IMSI-catchers is multiplied when a lot more people can deploy one.
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During that span, he leads major league catchers in hits, doubles, batting average and on-base percentage.
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The Yankees' Brown, for instance, plays long toss with the catchers and warms up the pitchers, too.
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There may be no better method of classifying catchers than by the way they block a pitch.
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Even in a fairly crowded shopping mall, it doesn't take long to spot the Surrey Creep Catchers.
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On at least two occasions, Surrey Creep Catchers or their followers identified the wrong people as pedophiles.
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The answers that I did get back showed that past requests regarding IMSI catchers were all denied.
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He was legendary for threatening slave catchers who showed up at his doorstep in pursuit of fugitives.
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IMSI-catchers, which track cell phones' locations, are now used to investigate a wide range of crimes.
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Tight end Hunter Bryant led Washington pass-catchers with five receptions for 115 yards and a touchdown.
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Those analysts study catchers' signs and sequences and can have their findings physically relayed to the dugout.
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Rodriguez has the added distinction of being one of only two catchers elected on the first ballot.
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" He added: "The quarterbacks and pass catchers are protected in a way they weren't in the past.
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Dog catchers had to use a stick and bin to coerce the sea lion to waddle back home.
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Welcome to the super-secret world of the Counterintelligence Division, home to the spy catchers of the FBI.
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To be clear, the Finnish MFA has also denied exports for IMSI catchers to certain countries, Sepponen said.
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They were healthy, too, except for one problem: They had just lost both of their catchers to injuries.
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Vendors vied for customers through peacock-like advertising, adorning their stalls with blinking lights or other eye-catchers.
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Outfielders available include Jay Bruce and J.D. Martinez, and among the catchers are Jonathan Lucroy and Alex Avila.
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IMSI catchers are pretty well established pieces of surveillance tech used by law enforcement all over the world.
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IMSI catchers work by pretending to be mobile phone base stations, which connect our phones to the network.
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VICE News worked with global surveillance watchdog Privacy International over several months to accumulate evidence of IMSI catchers.
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The Reds have been carrying three catchers, and Tucker Barnhart and Stuart Turner also are expecting births soon.
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C Wilson Ramos is having a solid season as one of the top offensive catchers in the majors.
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More of a grey area from what I can see with some of the Creep Catchers, for instance.
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Hedges' 11 home runs are tied with Kansas City's Salvador Perez for the most among major league catchers.
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Court filings show that the RCMP deployed IMSI catchers at a range of one kilometre during Project Clemenza.
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At this point, Fortin and his skills with IMSI catchers were already being stretched thin by RCMP demand.
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They have used it since it became available in 943 to evaluate and educate catchers throughout their system.
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Indeed, the NYCLU wants to know which models of IMSI catchers made by Harris the police department has.
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The two catchers will explain the plan for how to attack their opponent's weaknesses to the pitching staff.
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This year's routine involved two catchers and, during the finale, a spangled foursome seems to square dance midair.
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But now it is January, and pitchers and catchers are a month away from reporting to spring training.
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The devices, formally known as International Mobile Subscriber Identity catchers, exploit cell towers and can intercept cellphone communications.
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The Padres are trying the reverse experiment with Christian Bethancourt, one of four catchers listed on their roster.
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Some starters preferred other catchers, but if Posada's defense truly hurt the Yankees, it was hard to tell.
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A heavily redacted report from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) shows that two prisons have trialled IMSI catchers.
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According to financial documents uncovered by Motherboard, another UK police force has allocated funds for buying IMSI catchers.
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UK police have IMSI catchers, but they refuse to tell the public how and when they are used.
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Cell site simulators, commonly known as IMSI catchers or by the brand name Stingray, pose as normal cellphone towers.
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But they are clear enough to give other tax-catchers a guide to how they should cast the net.
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IMSI catchers are illegal to operate (unless you're law enforcement), although plenty of hackers claim to have made them.
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His inclusion gives Arizona three catchers and will enable manager Chip Hale to give Chris Herrmann more outfield time.
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Clevenger, who is likely to require season-ending surgery, is one of two catchers on the DL (Jesus Sucre).
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And yes, hacker summer camp is teeming with hacking and surveillance devices, like Wi-Fi Pineapples and IMSI catchers.
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There are outfielders who hit like Sheffield hit, albeit not many, but catchers just don't hit like Mike Piazza.
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They did it with a fantastic corps of pass-catchers and key plays from multi-dimensional tailback C.J. Anderson.
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Dakin said when her daughter showed up to meet the teenage girl, she was confronted by Edmonton Creep Catchers.
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Kathryn Joyce is author of, most recently, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (PublicAffairs).
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That research cycle will start again next May, when both birds and bird-catchers return to the Jersey shore.
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C Cameron Rupp began Friday night with the highest slugging percentage among major league catchers since June 1 (.632).
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They have used pitch-framing data to evaluate catchers, coveting ones who excel at getting borderline pitches called strikes.
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He added that Ellsbury made things hard for catchers, who are accustomed to their positioning routines behind the plate.
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Everything comes back into style, and even old-school decorations like dream catchers are starting to filter in again.
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Many of these exports include IMSI-catchers, devices which can monitor large numbers of mobile phones over broad areas.
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Typically, cops don't like talking about IMSI catchers, the powerful surveillance technology used to monitor mobile phones en masse.
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IMSI catchers, also called Stingrays, mimic cell phone towers that can be used for a variety of surveillance purposes.
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" *** Payne is not a part of Creep Catchers and says he will never join it—"it's too much drama.
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The Dodgers had kept him there even as he grew three inches, because catchers are so hard to find.
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This novel follows along as she evades slave catchers and other perils, and offers a host of quirky characters.
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The law denied habeas corpus to captives, rendering even free black people in the North vulnerable to slave catchers.
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All season, Kansas City has proven that any of their pass catchers can go off for a huge game.
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"That's the reason most catchers go to the mound, trying to protect your signs," said Girardi, a former catcher.
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The boxes — phone scanners called IMSI catchers and widely used in the West — collected identification codes from mobile phones.
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Keith always talks about how valuable he was, and I always think catchers should be in a different category.
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In Japan, the sasumata man-catchers and bokken swords described above are secured within the school staffroom, not classrooms.
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Warmer days ahead: Pitchers and catchers reported for spring training today for most of Major League Baseball's 30 teams.
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On Baseball Most of baseball's 100 teams will hold their first official workout for pitchers and catchers on Wednesday.
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Callaway wouldn't rule out keeping at least three of the four catchers on the 25-man regular-season roster.
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The 38-page contract is with Cobham TCS Limited, an established vendor of IMSI catchers and other surveillance tools.
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The professional snake catchers were presumably called in to remove the cannibal snake when they rudely interrupted it mid-meal.
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Globally, fog catchers aren't new to the world of water conservation, but they're entirely novel to the world of liquor.
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The regulations have been kept secret, perhaps to disguise planned use of cell-site simulators, also known as IMSI catchers.
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They also known as "IMSI catchers" because they track suspects by identifying a cellphone's unique International Mobile Subscriber Identity number.
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He joins Mike Piazza and Roy Campanella as the only Dodgers catchers to hit three home runs in a game.
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In American football, quarterbacks have long worn headsets to communicate with coaches; why can't pitchers and catchers do the same?
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Cooper Fouts, Catchers Coach: The fact was the high school baseball situation wasn't very healthy for him at the time.
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Herrmann could have played, Lovullo said, but, with three catchers, the D-backs had no need to rush him back.
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Motherboard has also found the UK previously granted other exports to Turkey specifically for IMSI-catchers, including a "compact" version.
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After opening the season with Casali and Hank Conger as their catchers, the Rays now have Luke Maile and Wilson.
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They questioned why Edmonton Creep Catchers would remove the video of McKnight if they truly had evidence of criminal activity.
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been using mass surveillance devices known as IMSI catchers, in public, for a decade.
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But with celebrity endorsements, Oluyole is now looking to acquire a large home so more children can join Dream Catchers.
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There was the Project Clemenza court case, which was key in shedding light on the RCMP's use of IMSI catchers.
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I, like many reporters in Canada, have asked local police forces about their use of IMSI catchers and gotten nowhere.
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But after the draft, the two catchers that Missouri State was counting on for the next season signed pro contracts.
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For years, Canadian police have successfully kept their use of controversial and indiscriminate surveillance devices called IMSI catchers a secret.
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"Hopefully in 5G, it will be more and more difficult to run these IMSI catchers at least," Borgaonkar told Motherboard.
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The Mets have checked in on, among others, the following free-agent catchers: Martin Maldonado, Yasmani Grandal and Wilson Ramos.
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" An earlier version of this obituary referred incorrectly to Mr. Wolfe's book "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.
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Repeated mound trips by catchers, batters stepping out after every pitch, and deliberate pitching changes drag things out as well.
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For years, that wasn't the case with so-called I.M.S.I. catchers (for international mobile subscriber identity), better known as StingRays.
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Slave catchers who roamed the streets seeking to kidnap both free black people and fugitive slaves were a persistent hazard.
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"I think slides have become a lot more creative at home plate because catchers don't block the plate," Girardi said.
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Catchers use hand signals to tell pitchers whether to throw a fast ball, curve ball, or another type of pitch.
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It has been 10 years since Piazza, 48, retired from baseball as one of the best-hitting catchers in history.
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More recently, a Sky News investigation found indications of IMSI catchers all over London, with VICE News reporting similar results.
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In 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that the FDLE had spent $3 million on IMSI catchers since 2008.
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IMSI catchers, otherwise known as cell-site simulators or sometimes Stingrays after a particularly popular brand, masquerade as cellphone towers.
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"The time has come for the use of IMSI Catchers in the UK to become an open discussion," Rice added.
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Asked by Wyden in November if DHS had detected evidence of "foreign IMSI catchers" operating in the Washington, DC, area, DHS replied:The Department of Homeland Security's (OHS) National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) has observed anomalous activity in the National Capital Region (NCR) that appears to be consistent with International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers.
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He called up Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers and carefully watched out for the snake as he waited for them to come.
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Clevenger, who is likely to require season-ending surgery, is one of two catchers on the DL, along with Jesus Sucre.
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But, in saying that, the bigger group, Creep Catchers—this BC group—caught an RCMP officer who is currently being investigated.
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Creep Catchers groups use online stings in cities across Canada to coax out alleged pedophiles, then post their encounters on YouTube.
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You'd have to go back almost another 20 years to find when the threat of IMSI catchers became a real issue.
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" Officer Fortin testified that he has personally operated IMSI catchers in "over 30 different operations," and "on over 50 different subjects.
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During the press conference, Corbin noted that the recent signings of catchers Yan Gomes and Kurt Suzuki factored into his decision.
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" It ends with the man vowing he'll never do this again and Laforge repeating the Creep Catchers catchphrase, "Yer done bud.
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They make the dream catchers as an inexpensive, trendy ornament, out of context, and away from its original region and makers.
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And if something is not right, the catchers will be expected to notice, to speak up and to sort it out.
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They saw the Giants' last pitchers warming up with a security guard because the extra catchers had gone into the game.
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The water used in the distilling process is the fog in question — and it's condensed using these big ol' fog catchers.
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Among players who were primarily catchers, his RBI are second to Berra's 1,430 and his hits are second to Rodríguez's 2,844.
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But just 17 catchers are enshrined, the fewest for any defensive position besides third base, which has 16 alumni in Cooperstown.
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Tanaka will be held back at the start of spring training — pitchers and catchers report Thursday, while position players are due Feb.
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Also known as IMSI catchers, they force any phones within a target radius to connect to the device and transmit identifying information.
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Its ETA is early Monday morning, roughly a week before pitchers and catchers assemble for their first official workout of spring training.
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As early as the ninth century, the royal office of the Luparii—wolf-catchers—was created in France to tackle the predators.
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Teammates routinely need to communicate on the field, above all so that catchers can tell pitchers what type of pitch to throw.
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These patrols also enforced the fugitive slave laws, serving as the "catchers" of runaway slaves, as well as judge, jury and executioners.
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The end of the case meant that the RCMP will reveal no more information about its use of IMSI catchers in court.
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In British Columbia, Vancouver police are embroiled in a public battle to keep the details of their use of IMSI catchers secret.
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For a period in 2015, the report states, the RCMP believed that it did not need a warrant to deploy IMSI-catchers.
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It was captured by Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers and posted to Facebook on Monday, although it was filmed about a month ago.
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She said preying on someone with significant physical and cognitive impairments is a "very low form of behavior" displayed by Creep Catchers.
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The Creep Catchers video, which was posted with descriptions like "Creepy Child Predator Confronted!" prompted many hateful online comments about her gender.
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Pest extermination is big business in these parts and specialties vary — from African bee catchers to termite killers and roof-rat snatchers.
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Also called "IMSI catchers" after the international mobile subscriber identity number attached to every cell phone, stingrays masquerade as legitimate cell towers.
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IMSI catchers, devices used to spoof cell towers and intercept communications, are one of the most resented open secrets of law enforcement.
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The man Raymond filmed, who has no charges against him, was one of the first people shamed on Raymond's "creep catchers" website.
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IMSI catchers, sometimes known as Stingrays, work by mimicking cell phone towers in order to trick nearby phones to connect to them.
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Camp, who leads a team of 16 people, says he found out about the Creep Catchers when he joined ICE in May.
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To that end, Laforge quit his job as a construction safety officer six months ago to dedicate himself to Surrey Creep Catchers.
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"We're very strong in that we would not work with Creep Catchers, and we want nothing to do with them," says Camp.
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After the game he chose to die on the decidedly retrograde hill that catchers should still be allowed to block the plate.
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By talking more about the art of pitching, the goal is to help the catchers develop the confidence of the pitching staff.
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Even so, floating catchers are no match for the ocean plastic problem, with much of the gunk swirling thousands of feet deep.
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According to Joshua Rothman, a history professor at the University of Alabama, there were indeed black slave catchers, he recently told Slate.
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Grandal's three-run homer in the sixth was his 15th of the season, tying him for the most among catchers this season.
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Now, as pitchers and catchers prepare to report for spring training on Monday at the Mets' complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
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One of the biggest eye-catchers of the Season 2 patch, though, is the debut of a Call of Duty League playlist.
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Good-hitting catchers are hard to find, especially as the offensive production from that valuable position has trended down over the years.
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As a Bristol Cable investigation found, CCDC stands for covert communications data capture, and experts strongly believes it refers to IMSI catchers.
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But even with those caveats, it still appears that some of the cell towers will likely have been IMSI-catchers, he writes.
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The list also includes talented defenders like cornerback Eli Apple and linebacker Darron Lee and pass catchers like Jalin Marshall and Michael Thomas.
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The park depends on its own catchers and the local community to collect Sydney funnel web spiders, which employees then milk for venom.
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"Wilson hasn't caught back-to-back games yet," manager Jeff Banister said of how he plans to use his two former Detroit catchers.
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But fish catchers are also increasingly reporting looting from the likes of seals and cetaceans, a group that comprises dolphins, whales, and porpoises.
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Wolfe's other notable works include the collections Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.
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FYI, Dunedin is the spring training home of the Toronto Blue Jays -- and pitchers and catchers were expected to report to camp today.
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He recently was named to the Pacific Coast League all-star team, and he leads league catchers with a 41.5 caught stealing percentage.
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They sift through the data to identify phones through their International Mobile Subscriber Identity numbers, which gives them their technical name, IMSI catchers.
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He is expected be able to start throwing again in five months, a couple weeks after pitchers and catchers report to spring training.
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It ranks tops among active catchers and fourth in MLB history, and it cut off a potentially big two-out rally for Cincinnati.
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The UK is a prolific exporter of surveillance technology, ranging from IMSI-catchers that can monitor mobile phones to internet mass surveillance equipment.
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But at all times, slave catchers are on her trail, waiting to drag her back to the plantation to be punished for running.
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Catchers were soon able to move closer to the plate and crouch to form a target in the strike zone with their gloves.
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Catchers frame pitches to fool umpires, batters pretend to be struck by pitches, and base runners leave the baseline to interfere with fielders.
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In the data obtained by Motherboard, 33 licenses are explicitly marked as being for IMSI-catchers, including for export to Turkey and Indonesia.
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Between his Facebook page and branded "creep catchers" website, the videos can rack up thousands of shares and hundreds of thousands of views.
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Since 2015, the UK government has granted over 100 export licenses for "off the air" interception devices such as IMSI-catchers, figures show.
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Martin, one of the game's top defensive catchers, put on a clinic, making one marvelous block after another on balls in the dirt.
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"I've told the catchers, I will never blame them for a pitcher giving up a hit or a certain pitch thrown," Eiland said.
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IMSI catchers are suitcase-sized devices that simulate cell towers and force every phone within range, which may be several kilometres, to connect.
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Now, we know that IMSI catchers have not only been used by Canada's federal police force, but by at least one local department.
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For those of us who cannot wait until April for baseball, pitchers and catchers report for spring training the week of Feb. 10.
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To those not steeped in baseball's mores, this distinction may seem silly: if stealing catchers' signs is allowed, why should the method matter?
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"NPPD agrees that the use of IMSI catchers by foreign governments may threaten U.S. national and economic security," the agency wrote in response.
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"NPPD agrees that the use of IMSI catchers by foreign governments may threaten U.S. national and economic security," the agency wrote in response.
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The United States' manager, Jim Leyland, is so attuned to the issue that he will continue to alternate his catchers throughout the tournament.
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Trump is exposing the sham of a Leviathan Democracy which pretends that presidents will be philosopher kings — instead of merely talented vote catchers.
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IMSI-catchers, commonly known as Stingrays, are small devices that pretend to be a cell phone tower and force nearby phones to connect.
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The 48-year-old — who plays one of the movie's four ghost-catchers — said she was "in a personal hell" over the online abuse.
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A small-eyed snake was caught on video cheerfully eating a compatriot by the Toowoomba Snake Catchers, who uploaded the footage to Facebook Sunday.
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Several companies that stock IMSI catchers have sold products to UK police forces according to public records, but one firm in particular stands out.
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IMSI catchers imitate cell phone towers and force all phones within a designated area to connect, revealing information about the device and its user.
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The league found management to blame for a system used by the team to steal pitch signs from opposing catchers during the 2017 season.
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It is only in the past few months that information detailing the use of IMSI catchers by police in Canada has come to light.
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One of the homeowners added an additional picture in the comments showing the snake catchers in action as they removed the snake from room.
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Contreras came into the game ranked second among rookie catchers with 100-plus innings behind the plate with a 41.7 percent caught stealing rate.
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Imposter cell towers called IMSI catchers intercept text messages, calls, and internet traffic from anyone who happens to be present in a particular area .
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In this arid coastal region, 'fog catchers' -- large nets strung up in areas with thick fog and high winds -- are used to collect water.
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Thanks to these documents, Canadians are finally getting a peek into the RCMP's use of mobile device identifiers—the police's term for IMSI catchers.
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Kathryn Joyce is a contributing editor at The New Republic and author of The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption.
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At one point considered one of the top catchers in high school baseball, the Astros' designated hitter long seemed destined for the major leagues.
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IMSI-catchers, sometimes known as "Stingrays" after a particularly popular brand, are fake cell phone towers which force devices in their proximity to connect.
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Will these two receivers, who are both most measures the two best pass-catchers of their era, get into the Hall of Fame eventually?
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Melvin Gordon rushed for 210 yards on 26 carries while Austin Ekeler led the Los Angeles pass-catchers with eight receptions for 264 yards.
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Needing to play catch-up yet again, the Mets got their biggest swings from catchers Tomas Nido and Wilson Ramos in another dramatic win.
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IMSI catchers, devices that masquerade as cell phone towers and surreptitously grab identifying information from passing mobile phones, are an established part of surveillance.
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As for the future, researchers are running a project called 5G-Ensure, which aims to address the problem of IMSI catchers on 5G networks.
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Manager Mickey Callaway asserted at the start of camp that he would not rule out carrying three catchers on the team's 25-man roster.
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Princeton, coached by the former major-league catcher Scott Bradley, and Minnesota are among the few teams that permit catchers to call a game.
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Soaring gallery spaces would be enclosed by giant cones, open at the top like the "wind catchers" that were once found in the region.
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Gary Sanchez was given the day off, too, because not even 24-year-old catchers are expected to play day games after night games.
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The adjustments have not always worked, and many of the old beliefs — say, the importance of fielding skill among catchers in baseball — contain wisdom.
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"We have been very careful not to say precisely where, or precisely the number of locations [that IMSI-catchers have been operating]," Fox said.
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Lo and behold, over the course of three off-season months, they were able to gather 88 gallons of fog water from three catchers alone.
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Injuries knocked out both of their catchers in recent days and their starting pitchers had the disturbing tendency to last no longer than six innings.
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It remains unclear how, for over a decade, the RCMP have used IMSI catchers in Canada while in violation of the country's wireless spectrum laws.
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Some of the videos created by Creep Catchers, or people operating in a similar vein, have been seen millions or hundreds of thousands of times.
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Luckily, as identified by the snake catchers, was actually a yellow-faced whip snake (which they say is mildly venomous) and not a brown snake.
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Snake Catchers Adelaide posted a Facebook video of founder Rolly Burrell and a colleague driving when they spot a snake hanging out in their vehicle.
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The Astros are replacing Brian McCann, who signed with the Braves, and their other two catchers — Martin Maldonado and Evan Gattis — are also free agents.
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A statement released by the RCMP on Wednesday states that the force now requires judicial authorization to deploy IMSI-catchers, unless exigent circumstances are present.
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"She said she was an escort," the man on the scooter replies, repeatedly asking the Creep Catchers what they're going to do with the footage.
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VICE has viewed Facebook conversations in which McKnight said killing herself was the only way to make a statement to Creep Catchers and the public.
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The last time both teams' catchers tripled in the same inning was Bob Scheffing of the Cubs and Phil Masi of the Dodgers on Aug.
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In his installation, however, the jockeys will be holding elaborately beaded butterfly nets, which Mr. Cave also called "dream catchers," giving "Until" a hopeful aspect.
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The Mets have three catchers for Wednesday night, which would free up Travis d'Arnaud as a pinch hitter given the presence of backup Kevin Plawecki.
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IMSI-catchers typically extract the phone SIM card's unique identifying number, or IMSI, but many models are capable of more powerful surveillance techniques as well.
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Here's some quick background for anyone who isn't a baseball fan — catchers communicate with pitchers and tell them which pitches to throw via hand signals.
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These devices, otherwise known as IMSI-catchers or Stingrays, can record phones' geolocation, their phone number, and sometimes the content of texts and phone calls.
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The team confirmed that the right-hander asked for a few extra days before reporting to camp with the pitchers and catchers in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Kaepernick hit the field with Josh Hidalgo -- Head of Sports Performance at William Paterson University -- and threw some darts with a team of pass catchers.
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To emphasize how important a daily routine is to success and health, Callaway held the first meeting for pitchers and catchers in the weight room.
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Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas signed for $100 million over five years, pushing the price tag for top pass catchers to an all-time high.
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Editorial At this time of year, baseball fans keep an eye on the calendar, counting the days until pitchers and catchers report for spring training.
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"I'm sure there will be some guys like that in the future, but I don't know why we're not developing catchers as much," Luhnow said.
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The Boston Red Sox were caught by baseball's authorities in a scheme to use the Apple Watch to steal signs from New York Yankees catchers.
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Princeton and Minnesota, which did not qualify for the N.C.A.A. tournament this season, are among the few teams who have catchers call their own games.
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The report said Beltrán was among the group involved in the team's illicit use of electronics to pilfer signs used by opposing catchers with pitchers.
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Among players who were primarily catchers, his RBIs (1,389) are second only to Yogi Berra and his hits (2,471) are second only to Ivan Rodriguez.
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Sheehan questioned the timing of the playoff expansion talk as pitchers as catchers report for spring training and MLB reels from a sign-stealing scandal.
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The investigation found the Astros used cameras and video equipment during games at their ballpark to steal the signs their opponents' catchers gave their pitchers.
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IMSI-catchers, which are often used by local police agencies to surveil criminals, can also be made by sophisticated hobbyists or by the Harris Corp.
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Sanchez, who ended last season with 20 home runs in August and September, has continued to emerge as one of the A.L.'s top catchers.
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DHS "has observed anomalous activity in the National Capital Region (NCR) that appears to be consistent with International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers," Krebs wrote.
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Among catchers with at least 20.9,9.63 career games, just five have a higher O.P.S.: Mike Piazza, Mickey Cochrane, Bill Dickey, Roy Campanella and Gabby Hartnett.
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The Boston Red Sox may have won the World Series with a platoon of light-hitting, defensive-minded catchers, but the Yankees stuck by Sanchez.
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Brought up because of injuries to Pittsburgh's top two catchers, he got his first big-league hit and first big-league RBI in eight at-bats.
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Krebs was nominated to assume a permanent role as undersecretary, but Wyden had opposed moving forward with his nomination, demanding more details on the IMSI catchers.
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But sometimes it can lead to conflict, as per this video shot by Becky Beale but uploaded to the Facebook page of Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers.
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The game is likely to be decided by the health of New England's top pass-catchers, Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski, who are listed as questionable.
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But Chapman did not seem to be bothered for long; soon he was lying on the floor, laughing with a small coterie of Spanish-speaking catchers.
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When staff from Snake Catchers Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan & Gold Coast arrived at the home to do their job, the two snakes were still entangled in battle.
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Cincinnati Reds pitchers and catchers reported to spring training in Arizona yesterday, meaning Cincinnati Enquirer reporters Zach Buchanan and C. Trent Rosencrans also reported for duty.
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Gold Coast and Brisbane Snake Catchers posted a photo Wednesday on their Facebook of a large male eastern brown snake slithering around a tower of Legos.
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A clip from VICE Canada's upcoming documentary 'Age of Consent' Stings like these have actually prompted some Creep Catchers to speak out about this aggressive approach.
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Garver led off the game with his 23rd home run of the season, tops among catchers in the majors, to give Minnesota a 1-0 lead.
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Four catchers in camp, Austin Romine, Carlos Corporan, Eddy Rodriguez and Kyle Higashioka, are considered excellent pitch framers, with General Manager Brian Cashman singling out Higashioka.
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Atlanta also reassigned five players to its minor league camp: outfielders Braxton Davidson and Matt Tuiasosopo, and catchers Matt Kennelly, Joe Odom and Braeden Schlehuber. (AP)
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Cobham, which has been granted at least one license, advertises IMSI-catchers that can be used to intercept SMS messages and voice calls from mobile phones.
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His profile has since grown exponentially, and he's inspired many copycats, including Dawson Raymond who founded the Creep Catchers Canada organization in Calgary in September 2015.
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Of the completed requests that the RCMP posts publicly, every single request pertaining to IMSI catchers was denied, or the respondent was told no records exist.
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For beautiful and tasteful cans, you go to Portugal, France, or Spain, where they transform the packaging of sardines, tuna, and anchovies into real eye-catchers.
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The marsh attracts dragonflies; fly-catchers like the red-winged blackbird with its distinctive trill; and leggy wading birds, intent on the crabs and mummichogs below.
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The same analytics wave that identifies and values catchers' defense also makes the job more demanding because of the volume of information to process before games.
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Some of the Tigers who had been Giants explained To Branca how the Giants had stolen the signs From opposition catchers: The telescope In center field.
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One surprise is Brad Kahlhamer's 2014 hanging wire sculpture "Super Catcher," which looks like dream catchers caught in an archaic fisherman's net, studded with small bells.
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It was his fourth home run in four games and sixth in nine games, placing him third in home runs this season among major league catchers.
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BRF said it has been working to improve working conditions of chicken catchers through a program launched in 2015 called "Apanha Legal" ("Legal and Humane Catching").
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He led all catchers with 17 runs saved, according to the Fielding Bible, and won the entity's award as the top defensive catcher in the majors.
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As the Indians started over on Tuesday, with their first spring training workout for pitchers and catchers, they did so with a renewed sense of purpose.
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McCann's 10 20-homer campaigns rank fourth all-time among catchers, trailing Hall of Famers Mike Piazza (12 seasons), Johnny Bench (11) and Yogi Berra (11).
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While the US has seen a lively debate around the use of IMSI catchers, the use of such devices in the UK is shrouded in secrecy.
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More compelling are the designer's "colour catchers": faceted and folded card shapes in different hues that function as an abstraction of all kinds of objects and spaces.
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But Eric King, a visiting lecturer in surveillance law at Queen Mary University of London, told Motherboard in an email that it may also cover IMSI catchers.
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Ghoul Catchers is filled with low ratings from people who initially liked the game and got hooked, only to run into an annoying paywall they couldn't overcome.
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Furthermore the CBC published an investigative article into how the creep catchers ambushed a man suffering from mental illness—something the group has been known to do.
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He actually believes what he's doing is quite different, and there's different tactics that he uses than the Creep Catchers use that he doesn't necessarily agree with.
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Some 58 days before pitchers and catchers are set to report for Rangers spring training, Texas pitcher Martin Perez is already the clubhouse leader for freak injury.
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VICE has spoken with family members, close friends, and support workers of several people with such challenges who have been shamed by Creep Catchers and similar organizations.
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Although the use of IMSI catchers by police in the US is well-known, the RCMP has been remarkably guarded about revealing its capabilities to the public.
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As unshakable as the bond is between father and son, there is also a link between catchers — an often unspoken understanding of the demands of the position.
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It is not just that it involves an understanding of what pitches work best and why; catchers take great pains to understand what makes each pitcher tick.
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"Beloved" is inspired by a true story of Margaret Garner, a slave who killed her 2-year-old daughter after escaping and being pursued by slave catchers.
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The Department of Homeland Security said in a letter to several senators in March that it had observed activity in Washington consistent with mobile subscriber identity catchers.
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You go to any Parks Canadian, and inside their gift shop, they have culturally appropriated artwork, whether its paintings, beadwork, moccasins, dream catchers, kitschy shitty little trinkets.
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He notes one occasion in which his undercover officers had already engaged with a suspect online but their operation was blown when Creep Catchers shamed the man.
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A coach, Rich Dubee, helped him loosen his changeup grip, and his catchers urged him to throw it low in the strike zone and take his chances.
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McCann — who hit last in the Astros' lineup on Sunday despite 12 seasons as one of the best slugging catchers in baseball — gave a more nuanced explanation.
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The team's third-base coach, Glenn Sherlock, who handles the catching instruction, said the catchers' past preparation was good but in need of taking the next step.
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"Everything we do as catchers starts from that stance, that setup, whether it's the receiving, the blocking, the throwing," said Jason Brown, the Yankees' new catching coach.
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Boone, who greeted pitchers and catchers Tuesday on the first official day of spring training, has noticed that foundation in his first winter as the Yankees manager.
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It is no coincidence that one of Arizona's catchers last season, Jeff Mathis, attracted the attention of the team that ranked worst at framing, the Texas Rangers.
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"I don't think any games are good news, because these guys are important to us," Yankees Manager Joe Girardi said of the suspensions his catchers were facing.
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"NPPD is not aware of any current DHS technical capability to detect IMSI catchers," DHS said, pointing to a need for funding to acquire such a capability.
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IMSI catchers are portable surveillance tools used for spying on thousands of phones in a targeted area, tracking their location and even intercepting calls, messages, and data.
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"I would like to be part of this team's future," he said on Thursday, after the first official spring training workout for the Mets' pitchers and catchers.
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Sánchez has an A.L.-leading 19 homers, one more than the previous mark for Yankees catchers before the All-Star break, set by Yogi Berra in 1956.
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Pitchers and catchers reported last week, and the rest of the players have been turning up, in keeping with the typical mid- to late-February start of camp.
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"Police services are investing in a range of new surveillance technologies, from license-plate recognition devices, to facial recognition or IMSI catchers," Israel told me over the phone.
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Cellxion sold over £1 million ($20153 million) worth of covert communications data capture (CCDC) equipment—the UK government's term for IMSI catchers—to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).
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"It is mostly likely—despite IMSI catchers not being expressly referred to—that it's these sections that will authorise their deployment and provide safeguards against abuse," he wrote.
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The letter detailed a trial program that used a series of cellular network sensors to discover the use of International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers, Ars Technica reported .
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Homeland Security officials were concerned that other IMSI catchers, often under the brand name StingRay, were potentially operated by foreign intelligence agencies targeting U.S. officials, the report said.
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According to Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7, a snake catching and reptile relocation company in Queensland, Australia, recently shared a shocking snake tail on their Facebook page.
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Todd Hundley, the Mets' biggest star, was out with an injury, and three little-known catchers — Todd Pratt, Vance Wilson and Tim Spehr — were competing to replace him.
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Campbell: I remember when [Bryce] came to the dugout after the first inning, and you could see him and our catchers' coach kind of somewhat going at it.
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It is theoretically possible to uncover the use of IMSI catchers by looking at the circumstances of someone's arrest or gaps in paperwork, but that is only guesswork.
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The fog catchers have changed the lives of women in the Sahara, who previously scheduled their days around the chore of fetching and carrying water for their families.
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Unclear if she was wearing her new shiny 8-carat engagement ring from Offset under those gloves -- but there were plenty of other eye-catchers inside the event.
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She also noted that the city's Public Works Department had installed mesh catchers within storm drains near the property to capture sprinkles and prevent them from entering waterways.
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It would be natural for your scouts to confine their search for a pitcher to last year's championship team, but to look more broadly for catchers and shortstops.
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The video has been viewed more than 35,363 times, and while some Creep Catchers supporters have raised red flags about it, many are supportive of shaming the man.
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Per Football Outsiders, five or more defensive backs were used 65 percent of the time last season to counter offenses' trend toward the use of additional pass catchers.
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Even if this doesn't stop them directly, maybe just maybe some of the Creep Catchers will start to question whether or not they are doing the right thing.
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Hinch, the manager of the Houston Astros, denied reports that his team had been relaying catchers' signs by whistling from the bench during the series opener in Houston.
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When the Yankees announced their new ticket policies in mid-February, just before pitchers and catchers reported to spring training, they insisted they were fighting back against fraud.
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Booth defied the US attorney general by declaring the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional and ordered the release of a man who had been convicted for thwarting slave catchers.
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"As a kid, you always dream of these situation," said Montero, 33, who has been relegated to occasional pinch-hitting duties with three catchers on the Cubs roster.
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Just one Yankee ranked in the top five at any position: Brian McCann, who was second among catchers but more than 775,43 votes behind Kansas City's Salvador Perez.
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As kids, we depended on fortune-tellers (or "cootie catchers") to tell us everything we needed to know (for a more detailed prediction, you'd have to play MASH).
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Now that police are finally admitting they use IMSI catchers, which were already the worst-kept secret in law enforcement, they still aren't absolved of any of this.
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Pitches bounced in front of the plate and off catchers' masks, a player missed a bunt, a double-play ball flipped out of the hands of an infielder.
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Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the Vancouver police maintained in May of this year that they possess no records relating to their use of IMSI catchers.
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The floor-to-ceiling windows are the main eye-catchers here, especially if your room has a view of the waterfront and Puget Sound beyond, as ours did.
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At Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci constructed an evening gown out of hundreds of miniaturized linked dream catchers, each disc woven in black thread by hand in a different pattern.
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In past events here, M.L.B. catchers complained that the half-inch-high tufts were distracting, and they would pull them out of the ground and toss them away.
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VICE News searches London for IMSI catchers, then goes shopping at a state security fair, and finally finds a shady technology company who'll sell us the spy gear.
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In May, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) became the first UK agency to admit that it had used IMSI catchers, in this case for blocking prisoners' phone calls.
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If you're brave, here's video of the incident: Well, the Cardinals decided to get drastic, as they bought three ballistics-tested ball protectors—one for each of their catchers.
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The IMSI catchers work by simulating phone towers to "trick nearby phones into connecting," which allows the devices to "collect calls, texts and data streams," the Washington Post reported .
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He joins Victor Martinez (in 22) and Walker Cooper (in 22) as the only catchers in major league history to have five-hit games that included three home runs.
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Just because you're leaving your heaviest, in-your-face eye-catchers at home doesn't mean you can't still make a subtle statement with your day-to-day summer jewelry.
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The team was found to have illegally stolen signs from opposing catchers and pitchers in the '17 season ... but 'Stros players were BLASTED this offseason for never officially apologizing.
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Grandal, who entered the game as a pinch hitter in the fifth, finished 2-for-903 with three RBIs and now leads all major league catchers in home runs.
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But the book did leave me wondering what it is that makes some basement tinkerers and butterfly catchers go on to become chemists and biologists when others' interest fades.
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However, his seven errors are the worst among qualifying catchers and his power numbers (five homers, 25 RBIs) pale in comparison to the All-Stars selected for Tuesday's game.
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One possibility could be the addition of a coach to provide instruction to the Mets' catchers, an area Alderson believes can be upgraded next season by in-house improvement.
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Major League Baseball revealed last month that the Red Sox had used the watches to steal signs from New York Yankees catchers during games between the rivals this season.
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Creep Catchers Accused of Targeting People with Physical and Mental Disabilities "It's a joke," Raymond tells VICE, adding he's washing his hands clean of how other vigilantes conduct themselves.
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He says he's heard of one case in which Creep Catchers in BC interfered in an RCMP ICE case by having a decoy meet with a man being investigated.
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Launched in 1996, AREA offers a spread of different surveillance technologies, including IMSI-catchers designed to intercept communications or geo-locate phones; and solutions for spying on internet traffic.
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But with six weeks until pitchers and catchers report to spring training, the offseason has still provided enough player movement to change how the upcoming season might play out.
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When Perez and Chris Gimenez, the Indians' two healthy catchers at the time, heard the news of Lucroy's veto, they vowed to carry the Indians to the playoff themselves.
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"It's an exciting day," Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters after the first full Spring Training workout of pitchers and catchers at Steinbrenner Field ahead of the 2020 season.
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Although he is 16-13 with a 4.13 earned run average in 38 career starts against Boston, Sabathia has beaten the Red Sox three times this season, allowing two earned runs in 20 innings for a 0.90 E.R.A. CATCHERS AWAIT DECISION The Yankees are still awaiting word on the appeals of the suspensions of their catchers, Gary Sanchez and Austin Romine, for their involvement in the brawl with the Detroit Tigers last Thursday.
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Harriet is determined to liberate the members of her family, which means evading both white slave-catchers and an especially fearsome black bounty hunter named Bigger Long (Omar J. Dorsey).
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IMSI-catchers—commonly known as "StingRays" after the most popular brand name—are small boxes that gather all cell signals in a given area by mimicking a cell phone tower.
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Should that day come, consider its impact on umpires and catchers, in particular: Umpires: On one hand, they might be paid less as a result of their jobs becoming easier.
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On top of that, they already had a glut of catchers at that level after Schwarber joined incumbents Miguel Montero and David Ross on a roster charging toward the playoffs.
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the country's federal police force, has been using dragnet-style cell phone spy tools known as IMSI-catchers, or Stingrays, for more than a decade.
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For her book The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption, journalist Kathryn Joyce spoke to dozens of women whose experiences matched those in the Donaldson study.
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At night, when the chickens are sleeping, crews of chicken catchers round them up, grabbing four in each hand and caging them as the birds peck and scratch and defecate.
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While Raymond initially founded Creep Catchers in Calgary and set up outlets around Alberta and in BC, including Surrey, he and Laforge have since have a very public falling out.
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Krause said that Sanchez was less pliable than he had been at 18 — a natural development — and that he was tighter in his lower back and hips than most catchers.
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IMSI-catchers — which law enforcement, militaries and spies use — impersonate legitimate cell towers and trick phones and other devices in their vicinity into connecting to them instead of legitimate towers.
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When I visited Seoul for the first time, everyone told me that the shopping there would be unlike anywhere else, full of compliment catchers and look-at-me statement pieces.
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Justin Verlander, the veteran pitcher for the Houston Astros, said catchers and pitchers meet more often now to combat sign stealing, which has become more sophisticated with advanced video technology.
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The duo baked bread and made dream-catchers at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya, visited the Albuquerque zoo (the snakes were a hit) and explored the area on guided nature walks.
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Roenicke, 63, is the new interim manager of the Boston Red Sox, taking the job less than 24 hours before the team's first workout for pitchers and catchers on Wednesday.
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Inspired by pitchers and catchers reporting for spring training, we're eager for some smart guesses and expert Googling about the Major League Baseball off-season and the upcoming 2020 season.
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From there, Manfred said the 'Stros ran with the idea ... and continued to cheat by filming catchers' signs, decoding them and relaying them to batters using a dugout trash can.
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It was later revealed, in 2001, that the Giants, whose home field was the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan, used a telescope to spy on opposing catchers' signals to pitchers.
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IVAN RODRIGUEZ It would be funny to think of the Marlins' having two Hall of Fame catchers who played a total of one year and one week with the team.
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The work's resemblance to cellular organisms punctuated by vacuoles and Native American dream catchers clue us in to her preoccupation with the relationship between harmful waste and ecstatic visionary states.
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In 2016 more than half of local authorities had issued body cameras to some of their staff, including traffic wardens, dog catchers, health and safety inspectors, bus drivers and rubbish collectors.
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For some reason, many of the stars who have emerged from round seven over the years were pass catchers: Harold Carmichael (1971), Shannon Sharpe (1990), Donald Driver (1999), Julian Edelman (2009).
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While the "Buster Posey is too handsome for roughhousing" rule is in effect to protect catchers from collisions at home plate, nothing can protect them from this sort of head trauma.
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Brady, apparently running on a double helping of avocado ice cream, zipped 210 of 23 passes into seven different pass-catchers' hands, gaining 219.2 yards and a touchdown in the process.
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Even with a new, permanent policy governing the use of IMSI-catchers, it's still a problem that the RCMP is making rules "for the RCMP, by the RCMP," as Tribe said.
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It keeps your drain from clogging, and unlike other hair-catchers, it neatly hides the hair from sight, so it's not just hanging out in a gross clump by your feet.
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"I think she was so psychologically damaged and physically damaged, and Creep Catchers pushed her over the edge," Eichner, 270, told VICE from the living room of his three-story house.
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With the outbreak of the Black Plague, which raged on and off throughout Europe for centuries, rat catchers were crucial for a community's health and the safety of their food supplies.
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This attack isn't revolutionary in any way—IMSI-catchers are certainly not new, and have become famous because they are commonly (and controversially) used by law enforcement to track suspected criminals.
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We have learned of at least one instance in which Creep Catchers interfered with a police operation, resulting in the suspect fleeing town and molesting children before he could be arrested.
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Police in those cities all refused to talk about the program, but it's well-known that police across Canada are investing in surveillance equipment, from facial recognition systems to IMSI catchers.
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Eiland said he would continue to sift through the scouting and analytical data on each opponent, but now it will be the catchers' job to supplement that information and present it.
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Callaway, a former pitcher and pitching coach, said that he wanted his catchers to rely on the pitchers' best two pitches, instead of getting beat on their third or fourth option.
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"We sent a letter asking the Vancouver police if they'd ever used one of the RCMP's IMSI catchers, and if they would again," said Micheal Vonn, policy director for the BCCLA.
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Of course, some fielders still try to create a scuff: Catchers may deliberately short-hop their throws before innings, and outfielders may do the same on routine throws to the infield.
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In Boston, slave catchers seized a young man known as Shadrach who had escaped a few weeks earlier from slavery in Norfolk, Va., and found work in a Beacon Hill coffeehouse.
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Lambeau Field is an extreme advantage for the Packers, making a win against the Raiders (3-03) likely, but the margin could be thin if those pass catchers are not available.
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The Boston Red Sox stole signs via video from opposing pitchers and catchers during the 2018 regular season, multiple members of the club told The Athletic for a story published Tuesday.
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Documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act by by The Ferret, an investigative journalism platform, now reveal that IMSI catchers have been used in the UK, specifically in Scottish prisons.
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Originally, the SPS wanted to trial IMSI-catchers at HMP Edinburgh, but concluded that the risk of tampering with the phones of passers-by was deemed too high, The Ferret adds.
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Many of the Creep Catchers told VICE News they'd been molested as children, or knew someone who had, and felt let down by the people who were supposed to protect them.
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Last year's fleet of economy-sized pass catchers—Artavis Scott, Ray-Ray McCloud, Hunter Renfrew—is a year older, while bigger bodies like Jordan Leggett and Deon Cain have enjoyed career seasons.
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His injury comes three days after the Cubs, who had been carrying three catchers on the roster, traded veteran Martin Maldonado to the Houston Astros in exchange for utility man Tony Kemp.
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" Potential changes: "Major League Baseball has proposed a 22011-second pitch clock and restricting catchers to one trip to the mound per pitcher each inning, rules management can impose unilaterally for 2018.
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They say Creep Catchers' tendency to bait and switch, by first posting an advertisement as an adult and later revealing themselves to be a teenager, makes those with cognitive impairments easy targets.
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He was known for his hustle, and, Angell observed, he was speedy on the bases (though he added, "This is an attribute that is about as essential to catchers as neat handwriting").
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C Yadier Molina went 2-for-4 with a double Wednesday against the Angels, recording his 23th multi-hit game of the season, tied for the most in the majors among catchers.
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The Yankees have paired him with veteran catchers in the last two seasons, Eddy Rodriguez and Austin Romine, to foster a better work ethic on the field and better behavior off it.
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During the roundtable, Luke Brubaker, a dairy farmer from Pennsylvania, described how immigration agents had recently picked up half a dozen chicken catchers working for a poultry transportation company in his county.
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Fair Warning: The title of Colin Cotterill's latest, THE RAT CATCHERS' OLYMPICS (Soho Crime, $26.95), refers to a vivid fictional side event at the Summer Olympic Games held in Moscow in 1980.
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Roberto Alomar, the Hall of Fame second baseman, was one of the best ever at stealing signs, whether from catchers, third base coaches or managers, but many others perfected the craft, too.
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The Red Sox are also accused of using the video replay room during regular-season games to decipher the signs of opposing catchers, according to The Athletic, which cited three unnamed sources.
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The most complicated dress in the collection, one that took 2,000 hours to make, was made solely of linked dream catchers, each woven from black thread by hand in a different pattern.
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Three unnamed sources with the Red Sox accused the 2018 team of illegally used a video replay room during regular-season games to decipher the signs of opposing catchers, The Athletic reported.
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A variety of pass-catchers made spectacular grabs for USC (211-224, 24-1203 Pac-2120 Conference), but perhaps none as critical as Pittman's 2117-yard touchdown reception in the third quarter.
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Los Angeles had the game's top two pass-catchers, with wideout Robert Woods gaining 117 yards on eight catches, while tight end Tyler Higbee was good for 104 yards on nine catches.
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But Judge — who faced down multiple slave catchers with nothing but a relentless conviction that she should remain free — is a powerful avatar for the revolutionary mythos of liberty and self-determination.
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Watch the Full Length now IMSI catchers are portable surveillance tools used for spying on thousands of phones in a targeted area, tracking their location and even intercepting calls, messages, and data.
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Snake catchers Norman and Sally Hill caught sight of this eastern brown snake just helping itself to a carpet python, when they were called to a home near Ipswich in Queensland on Monday.
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Thursday, fans lined the chain-link fences at the Mets' complex here, hoping to get an autograph on the day before the team's pitchers and catchers were to hold their first official workout.
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Signs of IMSI catchers — also known as stingrays or cell-site simulators — were found at several locations in the British capital, including UK parliament, a peaceful anti-austerity protest, and the Ecuadorian embassy.
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Pudge was one of the best catchers of all-time, an absolute defensive magician, and Manny being Manny meant fans got to witness one of the greatest hitters in the game's long history.
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Two of their catchers are David Ross, certified Crusty/Trusty Old Guy, and Willson Contreras, a supremely promising 153-year old with a half-dozen potential MLB futures still in front of him.
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Water protectors claim that coverage has been complicated by the presence of police IMSI catchers, commonly known as StingRays or TriggerFish, which mimic cell towers in order to obtain personal data from phones.
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McKnight's suspected suicide, previously reported by VICE, came just a couple weeks after Creep Catchers posted a "top 214 compilation video" on August 213 featuring her bust, which originally took place in April.
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This is despite troubling findings, such as the fact that IMSI catchers prevent devices in range from making 911 calls—something that officer Flynn testified was only discovered through the RCMP's own testing.
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The powwow has all the usual signifiers of Native American life: tepees, donkeys, women dressed in buckskin suits, men on folding chairs beating a large leather drum, vendors hawking dream catchers and geodes.
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The Yankees, who have finished behind the Red Sox in the A.L. East the last three seasons, will begin their latest chase when pitchers and catchers report to spring training in Tampa, Fla.
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So to keep a runner on second base from relaying what kind of pitch is coming to the batter, catchers call for pitches with changing signs, using the fingers on their throwing hands.
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A day after the Yankees lost a game in Detroit, they lost both of their catchers to suspensions arising out of the sixth-inning brawl that occurred during that defeat at Comerica Park.
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The Astros prevailed in seven games, taking all four at Minute Maid Park, where they stole catchers' signs off a television monitor and banged a trash can to relay pitches to their hitters.
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Manfred said last week that he hoped to have the Red Sox investigation completed before the start of spring training, but there was no word as the team's pitchers and catchers reported Tuesday.
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More than a month ago in spring training, Eric Langill, one of the team's bullpen catchers, ordered the silk boxing robe in Mets colors, thinking it would fit well with the wrestling belt.
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Eight other players who were primarily catchers topped 50, and they are all in the Hall: Johnny Bench, Yogi Berra, Gary Carter, Bill Dickey, Carlton Fisk, Gabby Hartnett, Mike Piazza and Ivan Rodriguez.
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As calamities befall people close to him (his wife is raped and beaten by a group of slave catchers that harassed his father), Nat decides that armed insurrection is actually his true calling.
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There is nevertheless a small but hard-core group of butterfly catchers who relish collecting rare species and mounting them as their Victorian predecessors did, said Liam Creedon, a spokesman for Butterfly Conservation.
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Over the last few years, and only after long legal fights and several public documents requests, we've learned a little bit more about IMSI catchers, including some of the agencies that use them.
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Newly published data suggests a load of fake cell phone towers, or IMSI-catchers, popped up around the Las Vegas strip during the Defcon conference earlier this month, likely set up by attendees.
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Investigative journalism platform The Ferret previously reported that the SPS spent a total of £1.2 million ($1.6 million) on a pilot project demoing IMSI catchers at two different prisons throughout 2013 and 2014.
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For example, SS7 tracking systems pair well with IMSI catchers (more commonly called "Stingrays") used by some U.S. law enforcement agencies, zeroing in on a target's general location in order to intercept their communications.
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On Monday, the CBC reported that it used some specialized tools to detect the possible use of powerful surveillance devices called IMSI catchers on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the seat of Canada's federal government.
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It is the second-most scoring connections between a quarterback and a tight end in NFL history behind only Philip Rivers and Gates (89) and is fifth overall between quarterbacks and all pass-catchers.
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Those two, plus a trio of playmaking pass catchers (DaeShon Hamilton, Juwan Johnson and Mike Gesicki) have elevated the Nittany Lions to eighth nationally in points per play, and 27th in yards per play.
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The bullpen coach Gary Tuck, who was close with Manager Joe Girardi and was lauded for his work with catchers, was fired after last season in large part because of his resistance to analytics.
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"Omar has quietly developed into one of the tougher outs among catchers in MLB, his contact and on-base skills are welcome additions to our lineup," Seattle general manager Jerry Dipoto said in statement.
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The Pirates have even plucked three catchers from the Yankees in recent years — signing Martin as a free agent, and trading for Francisco Cervelli and Chris Stewart, who are also proficient in pitch framing.
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He sports a light grey Surrey Creep Catchers hoodie, camo shorts, and a black baseball cap; his chihuahua Pinto is slung over his shoulder in a green leather bag, softening his otherwise imposing presence.
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"It's like you're on crack," says a dark-haired man in his early 20s who is wearing a black Surrey Creep Catchers t-shirt, grinning as he chats with a suspected predator on Grindr.
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On Wednesday, the Calgary and Winnipeg police, as well as the Ontario Provincial Police, publicly confirmed that they use powerful cell phone surveillance devices known as IMSI catchers in a report by the CBC.
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According to Page Six, commenters on the celeb's Instagram are pointing to this as an example of commodification of Native American symbols, as dream catchers aren't meant to be worn in such a way.
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When you manipulate the parameters to allow for Ross not having played as much as full-time catchers, he compares fairly well to other squatters: Not exactly a position that's overachieving on the whole.
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See hip-hop and baseball catchers and rally caps and Ken Griffey Jr. See Oscar Madison, "The Odd Couple" character played first by Walter Matthau on Broadway and then by Jack Klugman on television.
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That at-bat encapsulated how pitchers have approached Sanchez, who remains among the best-hitting catchers in baseball, even if not as fearsome as he was during the final two months of last season.
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While Houston used video equipment to decode opposing catchers' signs en route to winning the 2017 World Series, the information was most often relayed to Astros batters by teammates banging on a trash can.
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The Red Sox illegally used a video replay room during 2018 regular-season games to decipher the signs of opposing catchers, three unnamed sources who were with the franchise that year told The Athletic.
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When the Pittsburgh Pirates called up Lindell, they promoted Sandlock as well, ostensibly because he had the skill and experience to catch the knuckler, a bedeviling pitch for catchers at any level to handle.
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Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers, a snake-catching company based out of — you guessed it — Australia, posted a photo to its Facebook page on Monday urging its followers to find the snake hiding in plain sight.
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But, as I wrote in my book The Child Catchers, after they brought the girl back to the United States and she learned enough English to say so, she told them she had another mother.
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We traipsed from the fog catchers of Sutro Tower across the bay to Alameda where Hangar 1 is headquartered (in an old WWII airplane hangar), where a tasting of all the vodka-creation steps awaited.
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"My position and my question is that at the end of the day, we&aposve put a rule in at home plate to protect the catchers," Hurdle told reporters after the game, according to ESPN .
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A 2014 American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit proved that Harris, the company that makes "Stingray" IMSI-catchers, which allow police to track cell phone users, was able to get many cities to sign nondisclosure agreements.
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A video titled "Skinner Scooter" ("skinner" is prison slang for child molester), posted by Surrey Creep Catchers on November 16, shows a Facebook Live bust of a man on a scooter who has cerebral palsy.
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The senators Wednesday also asked that DHS publicly release an agency PowerPoint presentation from February that included more details about IMSI catchers in the US. CNN's Tal Kopan and Tom Foreman contributed to this report.
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The National League West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers swapped catchers with Philadelphia, receiving Carlos Ruiz in return for A. J. Ellis, the minor league pitcher Tommy Bergjans and a player to be named or cash.
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According to The New York Times, the MLB has determined that the first-place Red Sox stole hand signals from the opponent's catchers during a recent Yankees series and possibly during games against other teams.
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On one level, it's an intermural academic catfight — one that I confess I never expected to see cast in the behind-the-music format of Wolfe's classics Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.
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But there is one big difference between the Arizona catchers Chris Iannetta and Jeff Mathis: Iannetta had 10 years 13 days of major league service before this season, while Mathis had 10 years 1873 days.
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But the cacophony of activity that can take place during batting practice — hitters teeing off, coaches hitting grounders to infielders, pitchers throwing to catchers and players signing autographs — makes the odds not quite so long.
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For more than a century, baseball players have been trying to decode the unspoken cues exchanged by pitchers and catchers over what pitch to throw next and the location: a practice known as sign stealing.
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While the US has seen a vibrant debate around the use of IMSI catchers (commonly known as Stingrays), the position of UK authorities has been to consistently neither confirm nor deny use of the technology.
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For years, in almost complete secrecy, cops and feds in the United States—and elsewhere—have been using powerful devices called Stingrays, cell site simulators, or IMSI catchers to track and spy on cell phones.
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The catchers must be near targeted devices in order to work and could also deliver malicious software to targeted devices in order to steal information or "conduct longer-term monitoring of communications," the Post report said.
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That industry is incredibly varied, with companies selling everything from broad internet surveillance systems to hardware such as IMSI catchers, which can collect information such as text messages, or malware from companies such as Hacking Team.
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As smartphone users have become more aware that fake cell phone towers, known as IMSI catchers or stingrays, can spy on them, developers have rushed to offer apps that detect when your phone connects to one.
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Master of a prose style that qualifies him as perhaps the last of the great 19th-century authors, he has written about oddities like cannonball catchers, poker-playing pigs, performing fleas and people who tame bees.
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While the snake catchers aren't sure where the fugitive came from in the clip, Facebook user Emma Sharkey questioned whether the snake was one the company had picked up from her place in the days prior.
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Most teams would respond by spending resources on pass-blockers and pass-catchers to support a No. 2 overall pick, but the Titans this offseason have instead doubled down on drive-blockers and plodding power runners.
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Two major safety rules have come about since I retired in 2005: the "Posey rule," which protects catchers at home plate from getting smashed by runners, and the "Utley rule," which prohibits runners from targeting infielders.
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Nobody started more than 73 games behind the plate for Minnesota, yet the trio of Mitch Garver, Jason Castro and Willians Astudillo combined for 48 home runs, the most in the majors by any team's catchers.
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His best work remains the journalism he did in the 1960s and 1970s, such The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Pump House Gang, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, and The Right Stuff.
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In responding to an inquiry from Wyden, the department confirmed earlier this month it had detected activity consistent with devices known as Stingrays, IMSI catchers or cell-site simulators that essentially act as fake cellphone towers.
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This season, though, Reed has been almost unfailingly brilliant, throwing more pitches in the strike zone and, at least to the naked eye, placing most of them exactly where the Mets' catchers have called for them.
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"Up until now the use of IMSI-catchers around the world has been shrouded in mystery, and this lack of concrete information is a barrier to informed public discussion," explained Ney in a UW news release.
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Despite the covert nature of their work, which involves publicly shaming and filming people they have deemed to be pedophiles, members of the organization frequently wear clothing emblazoned with the Surrey Creep Catchers name and logo.
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He's performing, he has a track record of doing so—complete list of catchers to hit 50 or more doubles in a season: Jonathan Lucroy—and has an inexpensive, no-brainer contract option for next season.
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In the court case that led to the revelation that the RCMP has been using IMSI catchers for a decade, counsel argued that "it is clear that, at times, thousands of innocent third parties" were surveilled.
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As one of the better catchers in baseball, he would bolster their pitching and defense — a top concern for Van Wagenen — while also adding a potent right-handed batter to a lineup full of left-handers.
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He finished the season with a major-league-leading 15 errors among catchers — most of them throwing miscues — but he improved the most as a receiver by working frequently with Brown on his positioning and timing.
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When Hazen sought to replace the free-agent catcher Welington Castillo, he figured he could give Lovullo flexibility by looking for two catchers, specifically those who could deftly handle a staff, while retaining the versatile Herrmann.
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League officials are considering a ban on players' looking at live video during games, yet they are also working on prototypes of electronic signs between catchers and pitchers, though nothing is considered close to game-ready.
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TOKYO — Katsuya Nomura, a mainstay of the baseball world in postwar Japan who was one of the country's greatest catchers before going on to a long second career as a manager, died on Tuesday in Tokyo.
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The Astros fired their manager and general manager last month after MLB suspended them each for a year over a system used by the team to steal pitch signs from opposing catchers during the 2017 season.
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Three managers and one general manager have lost their jobs, all implicated in a brazen scheme to illegally use electronics to steal opposing catchers' signs and tip off their own batters to what pitch was coming.
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When pet owners wash their pets' clothes and bedding in the common laundry room, some of them do not clean out the hair from the lint catchers in the dryers, leaving me to clean it out.
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He is the front runner based on Iowa and New Hampshire, which is also like saying the Mets are likely to win the World Series based on pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training last week.
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Here's a picture of a stack of IMSI catchers, which trick phones into connecting to them by pretending to be a cell tower, sitting on what is likely the seat of a police car or van.
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One of the documents also implies that the force shares this type of surveillance technology, meaning that the total number of agencies across the country that can use IMSI catchers may be greater than currently understood.
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Dar Si Hmad is also bringing the fog catchers to other regions of southwestern Morocco, at the request of local organizations, providing clean water to a wider network of rural Berber villages that suffer from water stress.
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Ghoul Catchers, released in 2015 on iOS and Android, is a lot like Candy Crush except that the combos aren't intuitive, it doesn't load when you're offline, and there's no clear way of getting past the paywall.
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Last month the Astros fired then-manager A.J. Hinch and General Manager Jeff Luhnow after the league handed each a year-long ban for their involvement in a scandal that involved stealing pitch signs from opposing catchers.
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More recently, the New York Mets were accused in 1997 of using a camera to spot catchers' signs, and in 2011, the Phillies were apparently back at it, using binoculars in their efforts to get an edge.
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Originally posted as a reply to a picture of a much bigger snake chilling on its owner via the Townsville Snake Catchers Facebook page, Australian man Lachlan McNaught shared this tender moment with his slithery pet friend.
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The Bucs have what might be the league's most effective one-two tailback punch in Doug Martin and Charles Sims, an array of tall, fast pass-catchers, and a very young offensive line ready to mature together.
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I once flushed an entire family of goldfish down the toilet to avoid cleaning their tank—relying solely on transmitting vibes and trading dream catchers for a can of lima beans just wouldn't work in my favor.
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If a bystander observing a bust asks what Laforge and his team members are up to, they respond "Creep Catchers: We hunt pedophiles" with the same sense of self-importance as FBI agents identifying themselves in movies.
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Oakland RaidersOne thing to know: Down two of his top pass catchers, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers asked his coaches if second-year undrafted wide receiver Allen Lazard could get a few shots on the field.
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After their morning session, Sherlock, who is 56, and d'Arnaud, who is 28, joined the rest of the Mets catchers for workouts that focused on blocking balls behind the plate and framing pitches, along with batting practice.
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The Yankees, who had long been suspicious of the Red Sox' stealing catchers' signs in Fenway Park, contended the video showed a member of the Red Sox training staff looking at his Apple Watch in the dugout.
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The loss of deGrom, who is 3-0 with a 1.87 earned-run average, could have been devastating to the Mets, who have already lost catchers Travis d'Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki and reliever Anthony Swarzak to injuries.
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Paranoia about opponents stealing signs between pitches and catchers has existed throughout baseball history, but the explosion of technology and instant replay in the game introduced new fears, as well as new ways to exploit the rules.
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None of the active players who benefited from the scheme — stealing catchers' signals electronically and relaying them in real time by banging on a trash can near the home dugout at Minute Maid Park — have been penalized.
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"The biggest way it changes is you're probably helping younger players get through more situations," Girardi said on the day pitchers and catchers reported, recalling what it was like to have players like Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.
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This is not taken as unfriendliness and the waitress keeps talking—about the fluctuating tourist trade, the weather, which seems to keep getting warmer when it should be cooling, and her burgeoning online business selling dream catchers.
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According to a report in the New York Times, the Yankees caught the Boston Red Sox stealing signs from Yankees catchers in a scheme that included trainers viewing video on Apple Watches and relaying it to batters.
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While federal agencies are known to at times loan out IMSI catchers, it's rare to see a local agency expressly state that they are offering the device up to other law enforcement agencies operating in their jurisdiction.
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Adding cranberry juice cocktail would have been an insult to what Hangar 1 has developed; a smooth, almost gin-like vodka encased in a beautiful bottle designed in homage to the fog catchers from whence its innards came.
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"Although there are [many] countries that say they make IMSI catchers, there are only a few countries that actually make the chipsets [the circuits at the heart of the device], which are used by various manufacturers," he continued.
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It certainly doesn't hurt, either, that in Taylor, Troy Fumagalli, and Danny Davis, the Badgers have their most talented stable of pass catchers in years (and that's without leading receiver Quintez Cephus, who is out for the season).
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In February 2017, at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, a demonstration of Project Overwatch showed the detection of rogue IMSI catchers — the same technology DHS used, but did not disclose, in its letter to Sen. Wyden.
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In its poultry industry, teams of about 10 labourers known as chicken catchers collect the birds that are crammed onto large farms, working up to 20 hours and catching more than 50,000 chickens a day, the report said.
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The timing of facing the Patriots couldn't be worse for the New York Giants, who will take the field without their top two running backs and top two pass catchers when they face New England in Foxborough, Mass.
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In its poultry industry, teams of about 10 laborers known as chicken catchers collect the birds that are crammed onto large farms, working up to 20 hours and catching more than 50,000 chickens a day, the report said.
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Pitch calling, how we like him to set up for us, where to put the glove, get further off the plate, being more on the plate, that stuff comes, and all catchers can have some sense of that.
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That's why a lot of times, you see a lot of catchers get to the big leagues typically a little later than most guys, because there's a lot that goes into that position that's not just physically demanding.
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While Tiffany Aliche, better known as the Budgetnista, dishes out smart financial advice on her personal Instagram and Facebook pages, the real action is on her Dream Catchers Facebook group, which has about 350,000 members and a thriving community.
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The man responded to an ad for an escort, stating the escort was 20, but, as is often the case with Creep Catchers, they claimed a decoy later informed the man she was actually a 14-year-old girl.
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Although Pokémon Go is driving would-be Charizard catchers to historic sites they haven't thought about since their eighth grade field trip, it has also transformed restaurants, parks and otherwise unremarkable architectural features into sought-after gyms and PokéStops.
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Oluyole, 26, started the Dream Catchers charity dance group in 2014 to teach dance to disadvantaged children in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos while also encouraging them to attend school, hoping it would lead them to a better future.
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The Indians took an early 2-0 lead in the second inning on an RBI double by Austin Jackson, who later scored on the passed ball by Sanchez, his 12th of the season, the most among American League catchers.
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This means that San Francisco citizens can oppose the use of intrusive devices such as IMSI catchers—devices that capture information about any cell phones in range—that were used by neighboring Oakland police, according to previously undisclosed records.
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The unnamed student went to grab her lunch when she discovered a red-bellied black snake lurking in the front pocket of the bag, as per a photo posted by Snake Catchers Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan & Gold Coast on Facebook.
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Previously, Motherboard reported that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—this country's analogue to the FBI in the US—has been using IMSI catchers for more than a decade, and surveilled tens of thousands of innocent Canadians without their knowledge.
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Some newer IMSI catchers are even capable of capturing voice and text communications, and when paired with specialized software, may even send messages that appear to be from the owner of the phone, but were actually sent by police.
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Also this season the Southeastern and Atlantic Coast Conferences permitted pitching coaches to talk to catchers via earpieces, though Brownlee is not certain it sped up play; expanded video replay review in those conferences may have canceled out gains.
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All eight teams at the College World Series call pitches from the bench, which for decades has been an accepted practice across the N.C.A.A. That differs from Major League Baseball, where catchers call the games with minimal dugout input.
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Beltran, who played for Houston in 2017, was the only player from the World Series-winning team who was implicated in Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred's findings this week that the team stole pitch signs from opposing catchers.
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DeGrom is a more vital player than relief pitcher Anthony Swarzak (oblique injury), and catchers Travis d'Arnaud (season-ending Tommy John surgery) and Kevin Plawecki (expected to return later this month from a hairline fracture in his left hand).
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But Romine plateaued and watched the Yankees' confidence in him wane as they signed free agents (Russell Martin and Brian McCann), made trades (Chris Stewart) and promoted catchers in the organization (Francisco Cervelli, Jesus Montero and John Ryan Murphy).
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Originally I thought the word soulmate was cringey — cheesy semantics from a bygone era of dream catchers and Buddha beads — but when I started speaking to friends, I realized the term still rings true for a lot of people.
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The Nationals pulled the offer and moved on quickly; by the end of December, they had added Corbin and Anibal Sanchez to the rotation, Kyle Barraclough and Trevor Rosenthal to the bullpen, and Suzuki and Yan Gomes as catchers.
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After Thursday's brawl-marred loss in Detroit led to the suspensions of catchers Gary Sanchez and Austin Romine, the Yankees saw struggling lefty Aroldis Chapman give up the tiebreaking home run in the 11th inning in a 2-1 loss Friday.
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Situated beneath the three monstrous legs of San Francisco's infamous Sutro Tower is a handful of little contraptions know as fog catchers, which look more like a middle school science fair project than a new approach to California's dire drought situation.
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In 2016, he's appeared in 43 of Pittsburgh's 50 games―putting him in a group of 10 catchers who have caught the equivalent of a full season since the start of 2014, and on pace for another 130-plus game season.
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The Cotton Bowl was won perhaps above all by quarterback Jake Coker, a redshirt senior, who exploited the one-on-one coverage that both teams knew talented pass catchers like receiver Calvin Ridley and tight end O. J. Howard would receive.
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The provision comes amid fresh concerns over surveillance activity in the nation's capital after the U.S. government detected evidence of International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers — sophisticated cellphone spying technology often referred to as "Stingrays" — in the Washington, D.C., region.
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The provision comes amid fresh concerns over surveillance activity in the nation's capital after the U.S. government detected evidence of International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers -- sophisticated cellphone spying technology often referred to as "Stingrays" -- in the Washington, D.C., region.
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For realness, Pecis ran a ball bristle brush along the hairline, gathering the shorter, stray hairs that he calls "man catchers," spraying them with Oribe Maximista thickening spray so that they set onto the face in a web-like fashion.
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In an effort to slow the Indians' base running, the Cubs started Willson Contreras behind the plate instead of the veteran Miguel Montero, who was one of the worst catchers in the major leagues this season at throwing out base stealers.
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The Astros' scheme, which helped propel them to the 2017 World Series title, involved illegally deciphering the signs of opposing catchers via a live video feed and then banging on a trash can to signal the next pitch to the batter.
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In a different year, the Indians (just to pick one example) might be able to make a play for catchers such as Wilson Ramos, of the Nationals, or the Orioles' Matt Wieters; this year, those guys are starting on contenders.
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Nick Cave's Until was preternaturally of the moment, an eye-popping commentary on gun violence and the endurance of racism, with a room full of hanging wind-catchers and an intricately designed cloud-scape you had to climb steps to see.
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Tony Clark, the executive director of the M.L.B. Players Association, issued a statement on Tuesday decrying teams' inactivity, pointing out that with pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training in a week, an industry awash in revenue is snubbing free agents.
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But in her most famous novel, Beloved, about an escaped enslaved woman who kills her baby daughter to prevent her from being taken by slave catchers, Morrison had to balance her tendency toward lyricism with the starkness of her subject matter.
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In the US, there is plenty of evidence of cops buying and using IMSI-catchers, briefcase-size devices that sweep up the unique identification code of a phone (the IMSI), and, in some cases, text messages and calls as well.
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The Mets have been without their top two catchers since April 12, when Kevin Plawecki landed on the disabled list with a fracture in his left hand — the day after they learned that Travis d'Arnaud would need Tommy John surgery.
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L.S.U. has a dizzying assortment of talented pass catchers, including tight end Thaddeus Moss, the son of the Hall of Fame receiver Randy Moss, and running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire, who caught 50 passes this season out of the backfield.
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"[T]he National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) has observed anomalous activity in the National Capital Region that appears to be consistent with International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers," DHS wrote in response to specific questions Wyden sent them last November.
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"[T]he National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) has observed anomalous activity in the National Capital Region that appears to be consistent with International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers," DHS wrote in response to specific questions Wyden sent them last November.
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In December of that year, the Mets traded him, along with catchers Josh Thole and Mike Nickeas, in a blockbuster deal to the Blue Jays for Travis d'Arnaud, Wuilmer Becerra, John Buck and a top pitching prospect named Noah Syndergaard.
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Remember, Fiers -- a starting pitcher -- recently told The Athletic that the 2017 Astros used a camera to steal signs from opposing catchers ... and then relayed the info (what pitch was coming) to 'Stros batters by banging on a garbage can.
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Aside from providing ultimate consistency and fairness to both pitchers and batters (and fans), the electronic strike zone would eliminate the hidden, time-consuming gamesmanship practiced by pitchers, batters, catchers, and bench jockeys as they try to influence the umpires' calls.
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Aside from providing ultimate consistency and fairness to both pitchers and batters (and fans), the electronic strike zone would eliminate the hidden, time-consuming gamesmanship practiced by pitchers, batters, catchers and bench jockeys as they try to influence the umpires' calls.
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Although we know that the RCMP and local police have used IMSI catchers in Canada in the past, Minister Ralph Goodale, whose office oversees national security, denied that any of the country's police or security agencies were responsible for the detected surveillance.
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As the rest of the Yankees' pitchers and catchers went about their business Tuesday, mostly unencumbered by a large news media contingent, there was Chapman being surrounded at his locker by reporters asking questions about his excused absence from the day before.
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This puts them out of the reach of any network surveillance carried out by Koryolink, but IMSI catchers — portable devices which intercept communications by masquerading as a mobile phone mast — would enable the North Korean authorities to identify individuals connecting to Chinese networks.
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According to a report in the New York Times on September 22011th, the Boston Red Sox have been employing an Apple Watch as part of an effort to read the signs of opposing catchers and pass their findings to hitters before each pitch.
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The Tigers, better than any team besides Alabama, possess the athletes to hang with Texas A&M's fleet of pass catchers, and can combine it with the sort of edge rush that UCLA and Tennessee deployed to push the Aggies to the limit.
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The giant carpet python was found snoozing on a homeowner's kitchen counter after a huge meal in Australia, so naturally Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers Ross McGibbon and Richie Gilbert were called in to take the reptile to a more hospitable place outside.
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Pena, a four-time Gold Glove catcher, was in the vanguard of Latino catchers in the late 1970s and early 1980s who brought a flamboyance to the position, sitting on the ground with one leg splayed out and throwing from a crouch.
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The spying technology, called International Mobile Subscriber Identity devices and known alternatively as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, was discovered as part of a review by the Department of Homeland Security conducted last year and detailed in a letter the agency sent to Sen.
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Oluyole encouraged members of Dream Catchers to attend school by day and rehearse at night and weekends but she didn't know how long she could struggle to cater for the 20 or so children in the group since 2014 with 10 members currently.
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Yes, the white evangelical church is filled with a structural racism, but what's crucial, to me, is that that structural racism is typically aimed at making so many people who come from different cultures into white American Christians (see also: The Child Catchers).
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Mets catcher Kevin Plawecki has the somewhat unenviable task of catching New York Mets flamethrower Noah Syndergaard and along with the usual bumps and bruises Major League catchers collect over the course of the season, Plawecki has a new one: a Syndergaard branding.
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If Sanchez is not ready for opening day, Cashman said the Yankees would be comfortable using the two catchers who filled in for him last season — Austin Romine and Kyle Higashioka, who spent most of the season at Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
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My mission was to find every pitcher who threw any pitch especially well, plus catchers, hitters, coaches, umpires, scouts and so on — and, because the book would cover the scope of baseball history, to make sure to get voices of the past, too.
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And it pointed to two recent changes to enhance safety: Catchers cannot block the plate without possessing the ball, and on potential double plays, runners cannot change their path to the base or use a roll block to make contact with fielders.
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It can tip into folksiness (as in "Old Folks Home," which compiles stories of residents in a state-run retirement complex) or fail to suspend our disbelief (as in "Forest of Midwives," an unmediated account of the animist practices of Amazonian "baby catchers").
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Cora was the most culpable actor in the scheme to steal opposing catchers' signs via a video feed and communicate them to the Astros' hitters, coordinating the effort with several players starting early in the 2017 season, according to M.L.B.'s report.
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They conjure the tradition of spirit objects, from dream catchers to shaman sticks, but also Modernist sculpture by Alexander Calder, Julio González, Isamu Noguchi and David Smith, as well as the surrealism of Alberto Giacometti, with its odd angles and dangling appendages.
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INSIDE PITCH The Mets drew more than 1,500 fans to their Tradition Field complex on Friday, which, according to the team, set a record for the first official workout day for pitchers and catchers since the team moved to Port St. Lucie in 1988.
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Spring beckons, in Florida anyway, and as pitchers and catchers gather in the humid warmth of Port St. Lucie, the Mets are in the unaccustomed position of — I jinx, I jinx, I know I jinx — clear contender, top dog, potential king of the hill.
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Their to-do list seems far less dire: figuring out the outfield rotation, finding another position for catchers Travis d'Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki to play at times, filling out the bullpen and nurturing Zack Wheeler and Josh Edgin as they return from Tommy John surgery.
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Injuries have also played a role for the Pirates, who likely will see Erik Kratz start behind the plate after fellow catchers Francisco Cervelli (broken bone in his left hand) and Chris Stewart (undisclosed) were injured in the first two games of this series.
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"You will see that when it comes to IMSI catchers, when you look online and see what's for sale—many are in the exact same box, and that's because different companies add software to existing chipsets and market it as their own product," he explained.
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As pitchers and catchers reported for spring training, the 10 remaining players of the 2017 Astros appeared for a news conference at their Florida ballpark, which they share with the Washington Nationals and happens to be 10 miles from the president's Mar-a-Lago club.
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Piazza, who is working with the Mets' catchers, said he was proud and grateful to be in the Hall of Fame, and that he was thrilled to get a congratulatory text message from Mike Schmidt, who starred for Philadelphia when Piazza was growing up nearby.
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IMSI catchers — sometimes referred to as Stingrays — are devices spoof cell phone towers and can intercept phone communications and are tools that have been used by the US Marshals, the New York City Police Department, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and even the Internal Revenue Service.
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Turner, Suarez homers lead Reds past Padres CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Reds have been carrying three catchers on the roster for most of this season, with Tucker Barnhart and Devin Mesoraco getting the bulk of the starts, leaving little playing time for rookie Stuart Turner.
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Srivastava, after dodging most of my questions, offered to let Motherboard take a look at Aglaya's latest product, dubbed SpiderMonkey, a device that detects "Stingrays" or IMSI-catchers, the surveillance gizmos used by police and intelligence around the world to track and intercept cellphone data.
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At every level Contreras has seen of the Cubs organization, from his earliest days catching in Boise to this past week in the big leagues, there have been experienced catchers and catching instructors standing at the ready, watching and coaching and encouraging and correcting.
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"The RCMP has received numerous requests from the public and journalists about their use of IMSI catchers, and they've routinely refused to produce those documents, or they've claimed they simply don't exist," said Christopher Parsons, a researcher at the University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab.
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But the penalties could leave the Yankees without one or both of their catchers during a crucial stretch, including three games against the American League Central-leading Cleveland Indians beginning Monday and a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox that starts Friday.
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