I do not see any trace of a plane.
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911 Flight 93 Rare Footage from Shanksville
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Microsoft apologizes for race-swap photo incident
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Microsoft apologized Tuesday for using photo editing techniques to change the race of a person depicted on the company’s Web site.
In a photo on the company’s U.S. Web site, three businesspeople–one black, one white and one Asian are shown as part of a pitch for Microsoft’s business productivity software. In the same photo on the site of Microsoft’s Polish subsidiary, a white head is placed over the black person’s body, although the hand is not changed.
Here’s the U.S. site photo (click to enlarge):
And here’s the one from the Polish site (click to enlarge):
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Gillispie arrested for DUI
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Former Kentucky men’s basketball coach Billy Gillispie was arrested early Thursday morning on a DUI charge, multiple media outlets in Kentucky are reporting.
Gillispie, who was driving a 2009 white Mercedes, was pulled over around 2:45 a.m. ET in Kentucky. He refused to take a breathalyzer or blood alcohol test, WLEX-TV in Lexington is reporting.
Gillispie, 50, reportedly told police that he and his passenger, Brian O’Connor, were returning from a golfing trip. O’Conner, 42, was reportedly charged with public intoxication.
It is the third time that Gillispie has been arrested on alcohol-related driving charges. However, in one case the charge was dismissed and in the other he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, reckless driving.
Gillispie sued the University of Kentucky Athletics Association in federal court in Dallas on May 27, claiming fraud and breach of contract. Gillispie claims the school never intended to sign him to a long-term deal. The school has denied the allegations. He is seeking at least $6 million — about $1.5 million per year for four of the five years he says were left on his agreement. [espn]
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B.C. students buy sensitive U.S. defence data for $40 in Africa
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Data Security Fail. LOL.
From: cbc.ca
A hard drive containing information about multimillion-dollar U.S. defence contracts was obtained in Ghana by a group of Vancouver journalism students as they probed what happens to developed nations‘ discarded and donated electronics.
“It’s pretty shocking,” said Blake Sifton, one of three UBC graduate journalism students who purchased the device containing information related to contracts between the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and military contractor Northrop Grumman. The hard drive cost the students just $40.
“You’d think a security contractor that constantly deals with very secret proprietary information would probably want to wipe their drives,” Sifton said Tuesday.
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Dueling Church Signs
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This is full of awesome.
This is literally a “church signs” debate, being played out in a southern town, between the Catholic church and a Presbyterian church that face each other across the street. From top to bottom, you will see the response and counter-response over time.
Thanks, Justa, for this awesome email.
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California Earthquake Prediction for September 18, 2009
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Here in Los Angeles, we’ve been having an extremely high amount of seismic activity. I’ve experienced several earthquakes of multiple magnitudes within the past 2 years and have begun to take an interest in the theroies and predictions of scientests and internet wackjobs alike. Here is one persons prediction for the next ‘Big One’.
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Swine Flu: Japan Next
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It looks like Japan is next to fall in the Swine Flu pandemic. This is What Is Wrong With The World Today.
“Japan is definitely having human-to-human transmission,” Oshitani said yesterday in a telephone interview. “The WHO will have to take the Japanese cases into consideration when deciding whether to raise the pandemic alert.”
Margaret Chan, the WHO’s director-general, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon are scheduled to broker an accord with executives from drugmakers such as Sanofi-Aventis SA and GlaxoSmithKline Plc in Geneva today to ensure developing countries can gain access to pandemic vaccines.
The outbreak worldwide extended to 8,829 infections in 40 nations as health officials from more than 190 countries began a meeting yesterday of the World Health Assembly in Geneva to debate whether swine flu is spreading widely enough to upgrade the threat to level 6, and declare it the first pandemic since 1968.
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Sixth Swine Flu Death, New York
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After being sick for several days, the sixth Swine Flu victim has died in New York. This is New York’s first H1N1 related death. Experts expect more to follow. All in all, 11 schools in New York have been closed down due to flu-related sicknesses. It is suggested that there are over 100,000 cases in the United States.
People with underlying health issues seem most susceptible to the virus. Most of those sickened from the H1N1 virus have complained of mild, flu-like symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, aches and fatigue. New York City’s first outbreak of swine flu occurred three weeks ago, when about 700 students and 300 other people associated with a Catholic high school in Queens began falling ill after several students returned from vacations in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak. The school was closed.
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Manhattan school closes due to Swine Flu - 100,000 cases
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It has been speculated that there are over 100,000 cases of Swine Flu in the United States. Schools in New York, mainly St. David’s private school has closed down after several students have come down with Swine Flu. It seems New York has been hit quite hard by this near-pandemic:
The commissioner counseled New Yorkers who already suffer a chronic condition - like diabetes, emphysema or asthma - and have been exposed to someone with the flu to see a doctor even if they don’t feel sick.
Those with chronic conditions who develop a fever or sore throat should see a doctor immediately, he said.
Officials at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have warned the nation to brace for more deaths.
In Geneva, the World Health Organization announced Monday that the pandemic warning level would stay at 5 out of a possible six.
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Ashcroft, Mueller not liable for 700 Muslims' post-Sept. 11 arrests
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The Supreme Court has ruled that Bush’s former officials that were responsible for over 700 Muslims being detained in maximum security prison (as a result of the 2001 attacks), are not liable for their actions. They cannot be sued by any of these people who were detained on suspicion of terrorist activity. Among the officials named were Attourney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robet Mueller.
It is noted that none of the men were charged as terrorists, even though many of them had broken immigration laws in the process of entering America.
Several lawsuits arose from the post 9/11 arrests. In the case decided today, Javaid Iqbal, a Pakistani native who worked as cable repair man on Long Island, sued after he was held for several months in a maximum security prison in Brooklyn. He alleged he was stripped, kicked and punched by the jailers. His suit also named Ashcroft as the “principal architect” of this policy.[LA Times]
