Posted by Jesse - April 29, 2009 | 3:06 pm
Diane Schroer Awarded Almost $500,000 In Lawsuit From the Associated Press:
A federal judge has awarded a former Army Special Forces commander nearly $500,000 because she was rejected from a job at the Library of Congress while transitioning from a man to a woman.Diane Schroer of Alexandria, Va., applied for the terrorism analyst job while she was still a man named David Schroer. He was offered the job, but the offer was pulled after he told a library official that he was having surgery to change his gender.
U.S. District Judge James Robinson ruled Tuesday that Schroer was entitled to $491,190 in back pay and damages because of sex discrimination…
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Posted by Jesse - April 29, 2009 | 1:10 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Virulent swine flu spread to at least 10 U.S. states from coast to coast Wednesday and swept deeper into Europe, extending its global reach as President Barack Obama mourned the first U.S. death, a Mexican toddler who had traveled with his family to Texas. Total American cases surged to nearly 100, and Obama said wider school closings might be necessary.
The World Health Organization said the outbreak is moving closer to becoming a full-scale pandemic.
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Posted by Jesse - April 29, 2009 | 7:00 am
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — A child in Texas has become the first fatality from swine flu in the United States, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.
“I can confirm the very sad news out of Texas that a child has died of the H1N1 virus,” the CDC’s Dr. Richard Besser said.
“As a parent and a pediatrician, my heart goes out to the family.”
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Posted by Jesse - April 27, 2009 | 3:18 pm
SWINE FLU COMES TO AMERICA
WASHINGTON, DC – The Swine Flu epidemic has reached the United States. This new mutated strand of influenza starts as a normal flu, then turns people into pigs.
The world is in the grip of fear over an outbreak of a new Swine Flu. A previous strain affected pigs by making them grow enormous and vicious. This flu has since mutated, mixing with human and avian viruses, to create a new and more dangerous Swine Flu. This flu begins with typical symptoms, such as sneezing fever and lethargy, but soon makes humans grow larger and more angry. Then, by the first full moon, sufferers turn into mutated pigs!
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Posted by Jesse - April 27, 2009 | 10:23 am
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — You would expect human cloning to be unpopular in the Bible belt, but even here in sophisticated Midtown Manhattan 1010 WINS’ reporter John Montone was unable to find many supporters of the controversial medical experiment.
The issue of human cloning became a hot topic again this week when Panayiotis Zavos, a fertility specialist who runs clinics in Kentucky and Cyprus, claimed he cloned 14 embryos and placed them into 11 different women.
“What’s to say man couldn’t reproduce another Hitler or a Jeffrey Dahmer,” one man tells 1010 WINS.
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Posted by Jesse - April 27, 2009 | 12:53 am
On Sunday night Dateline MSNBC aired an episode of You might be rich where they discovered a man was owed $1,046,000 when he only expected to recover about $50,000 doing his own research. In fact, the show has put up a website where you can go and enter your details and find out for yourself if the government owes you money.
Here is the link for Dateline MSNBC (dateline.msnbc.com) to check unclaimed money from You Might be Rich tonight. You Might be Rich on MSNBC helps you search unclaimed money in your state.
You might be rich from the Dateline MSNBC site:
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Posted by Jesse - April 26, 2009 | 4:22 am
Report says that there was a deadly shooting at the Hampton University just about some hours ago. Officials say the shooting happened inside Harkness Hall at about 1 A.M USA Time.
From the only and latest news from the school officials there, it is believed that a former student of the Hampton University came on the campus and shot a hall monitor and a pizza delivery guy who was on a delivery shift. There no much news or details yet about this. More details about this will be updated here in some hours.
HAMPTON, Va. – Hampton Police and Hampton University school officials confirm there was a shooting on campus overnight.
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Posted by Jesse - April 24, 2009 | 3:23 am
Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate announce Second Year – General & Vocational Results of 2009 on 24th April, 2009. The Board of Intermediate Education(BIE) Conducts Intermediate Exam in Andhra Pradesh. Read more info About AP education Click Here.
Board Of Intermediate education has released the results of Intermediate 2nd year public examination 2009 (both General & Vocational) on April 24, 2009.The overall pass percentage is 60.15 %.
Intermediate 2nd year Result Links:
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Posted by Jesse - April 22, 2009 | 8:17 am
PEEL Chamber of Commerce vice-president and Centro Mandurah general manager Nigel Haines met with Senior constable Amanda Ahearn on Tuesday to discuss a CCTV register being set up in Mandurah.
The Blue Iris CCTV register is a new initiative developed by WA Police in conjunction with the Office of Crime Prevention.
The register has been developed as a secure database to hold information on government and private CCTV systems.
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Posted by Jesse - April 21, 2009 | 11:41 am
Stop by Ben & Jerry’s today to receive a free cone.
Tomorrow (April 21) is Ben & Jerry’s annual Free Cone Day, celebrating thirty-one years of Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia. Stop by any of these Manhattan shops between noon and 8:00 p.m. for a free scoop. Participating Chicago area locations include:
Ben & Jerry’s on Third Avenue
41 Third Avenue, New York NY 10003 (map)
212-995-0109
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