A recently laid off high-tech employee allegedly opened fire late Friday afternoon inside the Santa Clara office where he used to work, killing three people and sparking a massive police dragnet that spread throughout the area.Santa Clara police identified Jing Hua Wu, 47, of Mountain View, as the gunman who shot to death two men and one woman with a handgun before driving off in a silver sport utility vehicle, believed to be a rented Mercury Mountaineer.(...)Late Tuesday, police identified the two men killed as Sid Agrawal, the company's chief executive, and Brian Pugh, vice president of operations for the company. The identity of the third victim had not been released as of 11 p.m. Friday.
A recently laid off high-tech employee allegedly opened fire late Friday afternoon inside the Santa Clara office where he used to work, killing three people and sparking a massive police dragnet that spread throughout the area.
Santa Clara police identified Jing Hua Wu, 47, of Mountain View, as the gunman who shot to death two men and one woman with a handgun before driving off in a silver sport utility vehicle, believed to be a rented Mercury Mountaineer.
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Late Tuesday, police identified the two men killed as Sid Agrawal, the company's chief executive, and Brian Pugh, vice president of operations for the company. The identity of the third victim had not been released as of 11 p.m. Friday.
There's no point discussing it, I've been there and done it. It's utterly futile. keep to the Fen Causeway
MEXICO CITY, Nov 14 (IPS) - "I don't see any investigation, only grief and despair," said Heyman Vázquez, a Catholic priest who runs a shelter for migrants on the border between the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, referring to the recent kidnappings of 20 Central American women by groups of armed men."They promised to investigate, but no one has even come to make enquiries," Vázquez told IPS from Arriaga, where the women, most of them under 30, boarded a freight train heading north. A short distance from there they were kidnapped, in two separate incidents on Nov. 5 and 11. Every day, dozens of Central American migrants en route to the United States arrive at Arriaga, some 500 kilometres from the border between Mexico and Guatemala, after having walked for up to 15 days. Until mid-2007 they came by train, but now they travel on foot or by bus, because the railway lines south of Arriaga are damaged and no trains are running. On the night of Nov. 5, at a place called Las Anonas, a group of armed men in a 4 x 4 all terrain vehicle forced the freight train to stop and took away 12 Central American women. They have not been seen or heard from since. Six days later at a nearby spot, a similar armed group burst into a small migration post and took away another eight women, according to eye witnesses.
CAPE TOWN, Nov 15 (IPS) - For four days, Cape Town's convention centre will be filled with a profusion of languages, colours, and ideas as some 2,200 delegates from 144 countries take part in the 11th International Forum on Women's Rights and Development, organised by the Association of Women in Development (AWID).The conference theme, "The Power of Movements," is an expression of AWID's mission to advance women's rights worldwide by strengthening the impact and influence of women's organisations.
Beijing (AFP) Nov 13, 2008 Enormous brown clouds of pollution hanging over Asia are killing hundreds of thousands of people, melting glaciers, changing weather patterns and damaging crops, the United Nations said Thursday. Car traffic, factory emissions and indoor cooking are among the culprits for the "Atmospheric Brown Clouds", which are up to three kilometres (1.8 miles) thick, according the UN's Environment Programme (UNEP). Releasing a landmark report on the phenomenon, the UNEP said getting rid of the clouds could help ease many environmental problems in Asia. "The Atmospheric Brown Cloud is both complex and in need of a great deal more attention," UNEP executive director Achim Steiner told reporters. Unlike greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, which take decades or longer to disperse, the clouds would disappear in a matter of weeks if the sources of the problem ceased to pollute, the report said.
Car traffic, factory emissions and indoor cooking are among the culprits for the "Atmospheric Brown Clouds", which are up to three kilometres (1.8 miles) thick, according the UN's Environment Programme (UNEP).
Releasing a landmark report on the phenomenon, the UNEP said getting rid of the clouds could help ease many environmental problems in Asia.
"The Atmospheric Brown Cloud is both complex and in need of a great deal more attention," UNEP executive director Achim Steiner told reporters.
Unlike greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, which take decades or longer to disperse, the clouds would disappear in a matter of weeks if the sources of the problem ceased to pollute, the report said.
Pittsburgh (UPI) Nov 13, 2008 U.S. scientists studying 10 of the world's most popular approved pesticides say, when combined, the chemicals caused 99 percent mortality in tadpoles. University of Pittsburgh researchers said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-approved pesticides, when mixed together, can decimate amphibian populations even if the concentration of the individual chemicals is within limits considered safe. Such "cocktails of contaminants" are frequently detected in nature, the scientists said, noting their findings offer the first illustration of how a large mixture of pesticides can adversely impact the environment.
University of Pittsburgh researchers said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-approved pesticides, when mixed together, can decimate amphibian populations even if the concentration of the individual chemicals is within limits considered safe.
Such "cocktails of contaminants" are frequently detected in nature, the scientists said, noting their findings offer the first illustration of how a large mixture of pesticides can adversely impact the environment.
AN ENVIRONMENTAL campaigner has won a landmark legal victory that could change the way pesticides are used. A High Court judge ruled the government had failed to comply with its obligations under a European directive to protect rural residents from possible harmful exposure to toxic chemicals during crop spraying.
A High Court judge ruled the government had failed to comply with its obligations under a European directive to protect rural residents from possible harmful exposure to toxic chemicals during crop spraying.
Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Act now and get a complete set of sheets with matching hood. The first 100 callers get a hangman's noose and a Confederate flag personally autographed by former Senator George Allen.
Whoever thought that science was a dry subject might change their mind after learning about a new discovery in which tequila is turned into diamonds. A team of Mexican scientists found that the heated vapor from 80-proof (40% alcohol) tequila blanco, when deposited on a silicon or stainless steel substrate, can form diamond films. The key to the surprising discovery is tequila's ratio of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, which lies within the "diamond growth region." The resulting diamond films could have inexpensive commercial applications as electrical insulators, say researchers Javier Morales, Luis Miguel Apátiga, and Víctor Manuel Castaño from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Morales is also with Nuevo León´s Autonomous University). Originally, the scientists were experimenting with creating diamonds from organic solutions such as acetone, ethanol, and methanol. They found that diluting ethanol in water resulted in high quality diamond films. The scientists then noticed that the ideal compound of 40 percent ethanol and 60 percent water was similar to the proportion used in tequila.
According to [French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin's] theory - shown in a computer model available at http://www.3ds.com/khufu - the builders put up an outer ramp for the first 140 feet, then constructed an inner ramp in a corkscrew shape to complete the 450-foot structure. Seattle PI: Architect claims to solve pyramid secret
Seattle PI: Architect claims to solve pyramid secret
Now here's a video illustrating the theory -- and possible evidence for it -- from a National Geographic documentary to be broadcast tonight in the U.S.:
Will be interesting to see if more investigations confirm the existence of that internal ramp. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
