Arsonists behind Florida wildfire
Police say one or more arsonists may be responsible for the nine wildfires ravaging Florida’s Atlantic coast. A witness saw someone in a car drop something into an open field Monday, and a fire started shortly afterward. About 100 homes have been destroyed or damaged in the fires, which are burning for the third consecutive day. Gov. Charlie Crist has already declared a state of emergency. His orders allow Florida to use federal funds and bring local emergency workers under state control.
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60 percent of black children can’t swim
According to a first-of-its-kind survey, 58 percent of African-American children can’t swim, almost twice the figure for white children. The study also found that 31 percent of the white respondents could not swim safely. Among black children, the study found that girls overall had weaker swimming skills than boys and were less comfortable at pools. Black children drown at a rate almost three times the overall rate.
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T-shirt that Monitors the Heart Rate
T-shirt that attached with microelectronics to monitor your heart rate. It’s called Vital Jacket. It continuously monitors your heart rate and designed to be used in a variety of settings, from hospital to home, and for people on the move.
It comes in two versions one stores data on a SD memory card for the PC and, the other one allows on-line visualization using a smartphone/PDA.
Scientology is a destructive rip off,Former spokesperson
Film actor Jason Beghe, former Scientologist spokesperson says that he is lucky to be out of it now. He had a new segment of an interview up on YouTube but its been removed later. Beghe says that being brainwashed to be happy is worse than being depressed. He also mentioned that it’s not true that anyone in Scientology has achieved enlightenment and that the further up you get in the organization the worse it is for your mental health.
Shrinking city
Youngstown a city in Ohio United States, has seen its population shrink by more than half over the past 40 years. Youngstown used to be America’s third-largest steel producer; its mill workers earned among the highest factory wages in America. Since the steel industry left town and jobs dried up city’s population has been shrinking.
36 million Americans live in poverty
There are 36 million Americans live in poverty - earning less than $20,650 for a family of four. More than 12 million American children grow up in impoverished homes. Compared to 20 other wealthy nation on measures of health, safety and relative poverty, America’s children fare amongst the worst.
‘World peace’ hitcher is murdered
She wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people. Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo was hitch-hiking in white wedding dress for peace, from Milan to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Di Marineo’s project was meant to bring peace to the war-torn areas like Mediterranean and the Balkansg. Her decomposing body was found in bushes near the city of Gebze,Turkey.
Hosting provider Cashing in unassigned subdomains
Network Solutions, domain registration and hosting service provider was found to be taking advantage of its customers by hijacking sub domains and profiting from them without the domain owners’ permission. This same company was sued over “domain front running “, a practice of locking up domain names as soon as a user searches for them, taking them off the market and forcing users to use their service to register the name they want.
Google ads on Yahoo
Google and Yahoo announced a two week experiment to show Google ads on Yahoo searches in US. By partnering with Google, Yahoo is trying to signal it has other options besides succumbing to Microsoft. Yahoo also has discussed deals with MySpace.com and AOL. Yahoo insists it’s worth more than the initial bid of $44.6 billion, or $31 per share, that Microsoft made more than two months ago.
A tool to track refugees by Google
Google launched a new feature on its popular mapping software Google Earth which plots refugee movements worldwide. Users can download Google Earth software to see satellite images of refugee hot spots such as Darfur, Iraq,Colombia and Sri Lanka. According to Google more than 350 million people have already downloaded Google Earth.
Changing face of Canada
According to a new census data released by Statistics Canada, visible minorities now comprise more than 16 per cent of the total population of Canada. South Asians, (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), now slightly outnumber the Chinese, who were identified as the top visible minority group in 2001. Visible minorities have surpassed the five million mark this year. According to Employment Equity Act, Canada, visible minorities are defined as persons other than Aboriginal peoples who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in color.
Vatican,Islam world’s largest religion
The Vatican acknowledged that Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest religion. According to Vatican’s yearbook, Roman Catholics account for 17.4% of the world population while Muslims are on the rise at 19.2. But when considering all Christians and not just Catholics, they make up 33% of the world population.
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