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Toronto Earthquake happened earlier this day with a magnitude 5.5. It happened exactly at Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa while Canada prepares to host 2010 G8/G20 Summit and welcomes dozens of world leaders. Although the Geological Survey of Canada considered a 5.7 magnitude of the earthquake, the Geological Service of the United States downsized it to a 5.5 magnitude. The epicenter of the seism occurred approximately 30 kilometers north of Buckingham, Quebec which is a little town situated approximately 25 kilometers north-east ofOttawa. There were no damages and injuries reported except for some walls that shook in downtown Montreal. In Ottawa, some tall buildings had been evacuated and the streets were filled with workers who ran out from their workstations and were banned to return to their posts for a few minutes. Witnesses said that there were visible cracks on the walls of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and the office of the AFP in Ottawa. The quake also occurred in some p...

Google TV is going to be very interesting. It is far from a certainty that it will be more than Apple TV in terms of consumer sales. From a first glance the Marketplace is the most important and interesting element of the announcement. As a development platform, Android creates the potential for untold unique and interesting applications that could capture users imagination. Early on, I don’t think TV oriented apps will have the most impact. If I understood the announcement, in the beginning of 2011, there will be an Android Marketplace. The money and the opportunity won’t be in TV apps. It will be in gaming and social apps. The low hanging fruit will be in taking apps that work on facebook and Iphone/Pad and moving them (if they haven’t already) to the Android platform and upsizing them to take advantage of working on a big screen. The Google TV box could be a very cool and hopefully inexpensive gaming console. That is where the money will be. What about TV ? The success of G...

How Edmund de Rothschild Managed to Let 179 Governments Pay Him for Grasping Up to 30% of the Earth Woe to him that … establisheth a city by iniquity!… that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity (Habakkuk 2:12-13) Summary: After Edmund de Rothschild’s statement, without basis, at the 4th World Wilderness Congress in 1987, that CO2 is the cause of a non-existent global warming – and that combating it needs money (our money), he founded the World Conservation Bank for this reason. In 1991 its name was changed to The Global Environment Facility (GEF). The purpose of this facility is to lend money to the poorest countries, printed by the IMF out of thin air, and with the guarantee of our governments. The facility takes wilderness areas with mineral riches as security. The GEF money is then to flow back to our governments as reimbursement for paid loans. I.e. We give away our tax money. For what? When a country cannot repay loans to...

George Huguely, UVA Lacrosse player, charged with murder of Yeardley Love According to Charlottesville police, George Huguely,22, a University of Virginia (UVA) lacrosse player has murdered another lacrosse player, Yeardley Love, 22. Reports state that police were called to Yeardley Love’s apartment by her roommate at approximately 2:15 a.m. the found Yeardley Love unresponsive. Police have not stated how she died but said that there were signs of ‘obvious physical trauma.’ Police said that they immediately began a murder investigation. Both Yeardley Love and George Huguely are four year students at the school. Yeardley Love is originally from Cockeysville, Maryland; George Huguely from Chevy Chase, Maryland. Yeardley Love lived with two female roommates and had been involved with George Huguely. It is unclear whether they were together as a couple or had ended their relationship. Police spoke with Huguely and at approximately 6:00 a.m., George Huguely was arrested and charged with mur...

Even after one eventful week of the “lost” iPhone 4G, Gizmodo/Apple saga is getting worse. Gizmodo has just posted that there was a Police raid on their editor Jason Chen’s house in California. This happened on Friday night when Police entered Jason Chen’s house with search warrant. Police seized 4 computers and 2 servers belonging to Jason Chen at a time when Jason was away with his wife. Founder of Gawker, Nick Denton, has tweeted about it saying that it will help them in finding out whether bloggers were considered as journalists or not. It’s because journalists are protected by law and such a warrant can’t be issues against them. Here is the full story as published by Gizmodo: Article From :http://www.techpetals.com/police-raids-house-of-gizmodo-jason-chen-with-search-warrant-4-computers-seized.php

Plans are underway to gut the international whaling moratorium first approved in 1982 by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). The secret IWC deal, originally negotiated by the Bush administration, would allow Japan, Norway and Iceland to continue their slaughter of whales despite the existing IWC moratorium on commercial whaling. In fact, the deal would allow those countries to continue their illegal whale slaughter for commercial gain under the approval of the IWC, including whaling in the southern Antarctic Ocean whale sanctuary designated by the IWC. Japan has been flaunting the IWC treaty by issuing “scientific” permits as a cover for their ongoing commercial whaling operations. Norway and Iceland objected to the moratorium and have continued their whaling operations despite the international whaling moratorium. A large coalition of international environmental and animal welfare organizations recently completed an analysis of the newly proposed IWC deal and are uniformly opp...

Urgent environmental action is needed for the Aral Sea, according to U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon, who was flown over the disaster area by helicopter today. The Aral Sea has been shrinking over recent decades, so that while it was once the fourth largest lake in the world it has now shrunk by over 70%. In his latest trip to Central Asia, Mr Ban spoke to reporters after his helicopter tour and said the incident was shocking. Clearly taken aback he then said, “It is clearly one of the worst environmental disasters in the world? It really left me with a profound impression, one of sadness that such a mighty sea has disappeared”. He had toured the region with Uzbekistan Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev It’s thought that the environmental damage to the Aral Sea has been caused by tributary rivers being diverted for irrigation. The region suffers grave pollution and the salinity of the soil in the area has climbed. A fund to rescue the Aral Sea from its poor state has been founded by the 5 le...

Just a reminder that the Easter for 2010 is on Sunday April 4. Many of you who find this page may be interested in knowing how to boil eggs. I hope you will appreciate what you learn from here. If you are seeking ways to dye Easter eggs, please check out other sites. Here are some tips you can use to boil eggs so that the eggs can actually be consumed after the Easter is over. Be careful that eggs can be over cooked easily and the egg protein can be hardened by prolonged boiling particularly at high heat. In addition, you need to do something after you boil eggs so that the shell/membrane of the shell can be easily removed. Here is how: Place eggs in cold water. Please do not use hot water. Make sure water covers all eggs completely if possible. Use low heat to boil eggs for about 15 minutes. When you use low heat, 15 minutes will be sufficient. But if you use high heat, outer egg protein may be "scorched" while the inner egg content egg yolk may be still cold. You nee...

No, there are no plans for Lawrence to quickly rename itself Yahoo! We’re not going to get into that type of competition with our neighbor to the west. Lawrence City Hall leaders, though, did take notice on Thursday that Google gave Topeka gobs of international publicity by renaming its site after the Capital City for a day. But Lawrence city commissioners insist they’re not jealous, and are not wishing they had done more to attract the attention of Google as it considers where to test its planned super-fast fiber optic network. “No, not at all,” said City Commissioner Aron Cromwell. “I think ultimately there is a fine line between people laughing with you and people laughing at you. I believe Topeka maybe has crossed that line.” Topeka, can you Google zing? That’s not to say that Lawrence leaders wouldn’t love for Google to place its high-speed network here. City Hall used its Web site to urge residents to nominate Lawrence for the project. The city also submitted its own nominati...

Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day and everyone is trying to come up with the best April Fool’s Pranks. April Fool’s Pranks are meant to be funny and light-hearted, so the pranks below are perfect if you’re hoping to dupe someone. At Home: Squirt!: An all-time classic prank. Scotch tape the spray nozzle down so the next person that turns on the sink gets a squirt! Here’s a tip: Remember not to be the first person to turn on the sink! Wake-Up Call: Hide the victim’s alarm clock and set it for 3am (or some other crazy time). To take this joke a step further you can also unscrew the lightbulb so they have more trouble finding the alarm clock that’s beeping incessantly. Slippery soap: Rub dish soap on your hands and then on the door knob to their room. Watch as they attempt to get in! At Work: Push/Pull: Put push/pull signs on the doors so that people are pushing when they should be pulling or vice versa. Warning! Do not do this prank on fire escape doors. Yum! Cake: Cover a box with fr...

CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and SVN (SubVersioN) are two version control file systems that are popularly used by teams who are collaborating on a single project. These systems allow the collaborators to keep track of the changes that are made and know who is developing which and whether a branch should be applied to the main trunk or not. CVS is the much older of the two and it has been the standard collaboration tool for a lot of people. SVN is much newer and it introduces a lot of improvements to address the demands of most people. Probably the biggest improvement to SVN is the addition of atomic commits. Atomic commits allow each commit to be applied in full or not at all. This can be quite useful when the server crashes in the middle of a commit. With SVN, the commit can be rolled back while CVS could not undo the partial commit. Another addition is the ability to cleanly rename and move the files in the repository. With SVN the files that have been renamed or removed still ca...

The Sweet 16 have received a great deal of attention lately, but these schools have more to offer than just great basketball teams. Here’s a quick overview of each school and what it has to offer. Baylor University Baylor University is a private university located in Waco, Texas. Affiliated with the Baptist Church, Baylor University features 145 areas of study as well as 300 student organization. During the 2008-2009 school year, the total cost of attending Baylor University was about $39,276, with 93% of students receiving financial aid. Some of the most popular majors at Baylor University include accounting, biology, forensic science, nursing, marketing, psychology and journalism. Butler University Butler University is a private university located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Located on 290 acres, Butler University was founded by attorney and abolitionist Ovid Butler in 1855. The school offers 140 student organizations and 55 undergraduate programs while boasting an average class s...

[UPDATE: It appeared that Wikipedia was back online as of about 4:30 p.m. ET.] Wikipedia was offline Wednesday afternoon after an overheating problem at the online encyclopedia's European data center. Wikipedia's technical blog said the site's servers shut themselves down to avoid damage from the heat. Administrators tried to shift traffic to a cluster of servers in Florida, but "it turned out that this failover mechanism was now broken, causing the DNS resolution of Wikimedia sites to stop working globally," according to the blog. "This problem was quickly resolved, but unfortunately it may take up to an hour before access is restored for everyone, due to caching effects," the blog said. Trying to access wikipedia.com and wikipedia.org at about 2:45 p.m. ET produced a navigation error message. One post to Wikipedia's technical blog, by a user named Jimmy, found some humor in the situation: "And so we remember Thursday, March 25, 2010 as t...

After Hotmail went down earlier today, whereby many customers were denied access to services and e-mail accounts, we can report that Microsoft Corp. have now fixed their Windows Identification service. According to Bloomberg Business Week the trouble happened in Microsoft’s Windows Live ID service which customers use to sign in to live messaging and Hotmail. A company spokesman, Ted Roduner, said that consumers trying to make a new game account on Xbox Live online would also have hit problems. Customers will be relieved to know that the issue appears to have been sorted as many people have been greatly inconvenienced by it. Windows Live ID has over 460 million people users, in competition with Yahoo! Inc.’s Mail and Google Inc.’s Gmail. This year Microsoft shares have dropped 7.6 per cent. How do you think this latest concern will affect the company now? Article From :http://www.onlykent.com/20100216/hotmail-down-service-unavailable-feb-2010/

NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton had two stents inserted Thursday to prop open a clogged heart artery after being hospitalized with chest pains , an adviser said. Clinton, 63, “is in good spirits and will continue to focus on the work of his foundation and Haiti’s relief and long-term recovery efforts,” said adviser Douglas Band. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton left Washington and headed to New York to be with her husband, who underwent the procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Stents are tiny mesh scaffolds used to keep an artery open after it is unclogged in an angioplasty procedure. Doctors thread a tube through a blood vessel in the groin to a blocked artery, inflate a balloon to flatten the clog, and slide the stent into place. That is a different treatment from what Clinton had in 2004, when clogged arteries first landed him in the hospital. He underwent quadruple bypass surgery because of four blocked arteries, some of which had squeezed almost c...

From Texas comes word that Charlie Wilson's heart--his second--finally gave out. Which wasn't all that surprising, when you considered how much he had lived. If you measured Charlie Wilson's life in years, it came to only 76. But if you looked at the number of miles the former Texas Congressman put on his odometer, well, that added up to more than most men could manage in three lifetimes. Charlie Wilson was the kind of man who would declare on 60 Minutes: "I just love stickin' it to the Russians." The kind of man who would make a fact-finding trip through Pakistan, taking his then-girlfriend, a former Miss World USA, in tow through that Islamic country. And then, when the Defense Intelligence Agency refused to ferry her, he was the kind who would use his position on the House Appropriations Committee to slash the funding for two DIA planes, and have them transferred to the national guard instead. His House colleagues used to say Charlie Wilson was the only p...

Just now posting a story to Military.com on the death of one of the most influential defense lawmakers on Capitol Hill ever. I’ve had my beefs with Rep. Jack Murtha in the past, but I truly am shocked and saddened by his death. He was a tireless advocate for Pentagon programs he believed in and forced them down a left-leaning Congress in years where defense spending was less than a priority. And despite our sometimes butting heads over the Haditha incident, he and his staff have always treated me with respect and professionalism. We’ll slice and dice his record tomorrow, but today, let’s offer his family and staff our condolences and take a moment of silence to honor the decorated Vietnam vet and Marine officer/public servant. – Christian Article From : http://defensetech.org/2010/02/08/murtha-dead-at-77/

FOXNews has just announced that there are “mass casualties” at the Kleen Energy Plant in Middletown , Connecticut. It is believed about 100 employees may have been at the plant at the time. I’ll be updating all day. Updates as available. See a video below. Kleen Energy Explosion MSNBC is reporting an “unknown” number of people dead and injured. CNN cites police officials saying two are dead. The “massive explosion” at 1340 River Road, was apparently due to a gas line rupturing at about 11:00 – 11:30 AM EST today. The explosion could be felt all the way to Long Island Sound. Multiple emergency vehicles are on the scene. An hour after the explosion and what is believed to be the Kleen Energy Systems plant on River Road, emergency rescue personnel were continuing to arrive by vehicle and helicopter. Helicopters were airlifting victims to area hospitals. Witnesses across the river from the plant say the main plant building seems to be “substantially leveled.” Kleen Energy Plant Off...

Send a ball | send a ball in the mail,Send a ball qubits, sendaball, Send a ball mail a ball, Send a ball have a ball. Send a ballOne of my favorite shows on T.V right now is Shark Tank, Multi-Millionaire business owners who hear investment proposals from entrepreneurs and consider whether to invest in the businesses. While watching this show I came across this company founded by two moms, Send a Ball. While the “Sharks” did not invest in this company I couldn’t bear not to spread the word about this great service. I have 5 nieces and nephews all under 7 and know they would love to receive this in the mail. Better yet, what babies don’t love to play with balls? I avoid the stack of balls in Target every time we go because Ball, Ball, Ball would be the word of the day for the rest of the day out of Isabella’s mouth! This is a great way to congratulate a new baby, say Happy Birthday, Happy Valentine’s day or how about just for fun! Forget the Balloons, these last longer! Not to mention, ...

After 2 previous sad news we heard a few moment ago, now the world has been surprised with the death of Jay Novacek’s wife, LeAnne Novacek . So far, there is no official announcement about the cause of death of Jay Novacek wife , however, according to some local news portals, there is a possibility she committed suicide because Jay Novacek wife found dead in the bedroom of the residence at 9:05 a.m. this morning. Responding to this case, the local police said that there will be performed an autopsy on Tuesday why LeAnne Novacek died as for now, the investigation still remains. Jay Novacek , was a former NFL tight end, but Jay Novacek known for being a part of the Dallas Cowboys team because in that team, he won three Super Bowls in the early 90s. However, since 1997, he officially decided to retire NFL in 1997 due to lingering injured. Now, let’s give a sympathy to Jay Novacek family after Jay Novacek wife died . PS: Just before I heard news that tells Jay Novacek wife dead , th...