| Update: Library Has 10 Copies of "Water for Elephants"
Angel: I was in this accident. It involved a nissan, a ford explorer, a geo tracker and a mini-van. The tracker flipped and hit the van (which we were riding in). The driver of the tracker (which rolled over) crawled out the passenger side window and walked to the opposite side of the road, he was taken to the hospital for evaluation. The driver of the explorer was very depressed about the accident, the driver of the nissan and her passengers (two teen girls and a teen boy) were upset as well. No idea who caused the accident due to the fact that everyone was hitting their brakes pretty hard. The passengers of the mini van 7 in all (myself included) have whiplash and minor cuts and bruises. DFO: Huckleberries Online first reported this accident, off the police scanner, at 11:32 a.m.
Callers give O'Malley an earful
There's no politician in the state as deft in handling the media as Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley. Yesterday, O'Malley settled into his new role as rookie radio talk show host.
He got a polite earful.
On one line, Robert from Canton was complaining about a water leak. On another, Dorie from Northeast Baltimore described troubles with late property tax bills, while Fran from Phoenix vented because she couldn't get drug-dealing tenants evicted at a property she owns in the city.
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Chinese-Canadian star apologizes for sex photo scandal
A Chinese celebrity sex scandal came to a head on Thursday, with Vancouver-born actor and singer Edison Chen apologizing for widely-circulated photos showing him and several women apparently engaged in sex acts. Chen held a press conference in Hong Kong to publicly address for the first time the ongoing controversy, which has shocked the Chinese-speaking world for weeks. Vancouver-born actor and singer Edison Chen admitted he took the racy photos and apologized for the controversy during a news conference in Hong Kong Thursday. (Kin Cheung/Associated Press) The scandal began when the 27-year-old performer sent his laptop computer to a shop for repair. The computer contained approximately 1,300 photos of Chen and a bevy of female Chinese celebrities either posed suggestively or engaged in sex acts, according to police.
IT No YouTube for You: Cut Undersea Cable Wrecks Middle East Internet
The article didn't mention where this cable was cut. I'm guessing it was in a shipping lane though.The bank looks like they got caught with their pants down too. In the U.S. any financial institution usually have several backups; one of which is always HughesNet Satellite. .
Tri-City plants among top polluters
Overall, the EPA said toxic releases in 2006 from 1,357 facilities in California were down 2.8 percent to 45.2 million pounds from the previous year. Tesoro's refinery historically has lagged behind the other refineries in installing upgrades. It has been the region's biggest polluter every year since at least 2003, according to an EPA toxics database. Mike Marcy, a Tesoro spokesman, said most of the toxic material reported by the refinery was ammonia that air quality regulators require to control smog. A $575 million upgrade that is scheduled tobe done this year will slash toxic pollution from the Tesoro refinery to about 500,000 pounds a year, Marcy said. "This is replacing 1950s technology that was here when Tesoro bought the refinery in 2002," he said.
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