TORREGAVETA, Italy (July 21) - Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Roma girls were laid out on the sand.
Italian news agency ANSA reported that the incident had occurred on Saturday at the beach of Torregaveta, west of Naples, southern Italy, where the two girls had earlier been swimming in the sea with two other Roma girls. Reports said they had gone to the beach to beg and sell trinkets.
Two of the girls had obtained rescue, but the other two could not be reached in time, apparently the girls were cousins aged 12 and 13. While the two dead girls lay on the beach people sunbathed and ate lunch on about 50 foot away, the church has also came out to condemn this act.
July 22, 2008
Scientists use the plant to “grow” key components of a cancer vaccine,and when I first saw this I was in a state of shock myself until I realized what they were actually doing. They are using the plants as factories for an antibody chemical specific to the cells which cause follicular B-cell lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
More research is needed but this could prove to be a step in the right direction,by getting the treatment from plants the cost would be cheaper and there would be less risk to the patient.
BBC News
Technorati Tags: Tobacco, Health, Cancer
July 22, 2008
REDWOOD
CITY — A Daly City man accused of housing a teenage girl in the
basement of his parents’ home and molesting her hundreds of times will
face up to 20 years in prison after copping a plea on Wednesday to more
than a dozen felony counts of child abuse and domestic violence.
John
France Gonzales, a 23-year-old former pharmacy technician, had been
charged with 142 felonies, including more than 100 counts of child
abuse, many involving sodomy and oral copulation.
Prosecutors
slapped Gonzales with every possible felony count to hold him
accountable for more than 500 occasions of sexual conduct with the
victim, according to Morley Pitt, San Mateo County’s assistant district
attorney.
But the district attorney’s office had always planned
to reduce the multiple felony charges against Gonzales as long as he
accepted responsibility for his criminal behavior, Pitt said.
Prior
to the plea bargain, Gonzales faced up to 132 years in prison,
according to the prosecutor. Now he will spend no more than 20 years in
prison.
It seems these kind of stories are all the time in the news,very disturbing acts seems to be taking place more frequently. A hearing set for his sentencing date is scheduled for July 23rd.
Inside Bay Area
July 14, 2008
I have not tried this one out to full extent but it sounds just what the doctor ordered if you use twitter, here is an excerpt of what this add-on does and to bypass the 140 word limit on twitter sounds good to me;
Twitzer is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter.com.
It also provides a feature where you can resolve all TinyURL links to actual links so that you are sure you are clicking on safe links.
Twitzer - Twitter more :: Firefox Add-ons
July 10, 2008
The group, calling itself the Presidential Memorial Committee of San Francisco, wants the issue voted on at this November’s election.
“It’s important to remember our leaders in the right historical context,” said petition organizer Brian McConnell.
The Republican Party thinks the plan stinks, and it will fight the measure.
LOL,,this is hilarious, this group in San Francisco wants to name a sewage plant after president Bush. More or less they want to pay him a tribute, they are right now trying to get it on the ballet to be voted on in November.
Read More at;
BBC NEWS
Technorati Tags: Bush, Sewage, San Francisco
July 8, 2008
KATMANDU, Nepal - Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, is engaged and plans to marry a woman 44 years younger than he is.
Both Sobhraj, 64, and his 20-year-old Nepalese fiancée, Nihita Biswas, said they are planning to get married if he is freed by Nepal’s Supreme Court.
Sobhraj was convicted by a Katmandu district court in 2004 on charges of killing a Canadian tourist in Katmandu in 1975. He was arrested at a luxury Katmandu casino when he returned to Nepal in 2003.
Has the whole world gone mad???
Confessed serial killer to marry - South and Central Asia- msnbc.com
July 5, 2008
