Actual headline in CBC News: Police on guard in Montreal in case of another hockey riot
All the real hockey fans are in Canada!
Chablo hinted that police will be bused in, instead of bringing cruisers — a popular target for rioters. Police will have a helicopter available if it’s needed, and will get backup help from the RCMP and Quebec provincial police. Read the whole article.
Amazing!!!
A related article.
Man wrongly convicted spends 10 months in jail. Expected to get $581,700 in compensation. They scared him into pleading guilty..
Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert F. Fitzgerald threatened to sentence him to life in prison if convicted. The Orange County district attorney’s office prosecuted Ochoa despite having DNA evidence and fingerprints linking someone else..
Read the whole article at LA Times.
NEW YORK (CNN) — The number of deaths in Sudan’s Darfur region since 2006 may have been underestimated by as much as 50 percent, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs said Tuesday.
Yikes, we have a Nalgene water bottle. I won’t be using it anymore. Containers made with bisphenol A chemical linked to health risks.
A federal report finds ‘some concern’ that fetuses, babies and children are at risk from bisphenol A.
Articles:
http://green.yahoo.com/news/nm/20080415/sc_nm/plastic_bottles_dc.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-na-plastic16apr16,1,1124584.story
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-04-15-plastic-safety_N.htm
Random picture of the day, originally uploaded by dahlenw.
So here is a picture I took from my morning walk today. It is a nice day. The sprinklers were on in the soccer fields making some beautiful rainbows over the goals.
I also found some interesting things online. There is this guy that takes time-lapse photos and then animates this like old oil paintings.
Also, I guess this weekend they detonated an old WWII underwater mine. Pretty cool.
This Chinese themed park was just South of Orlando, FL and closed about 5 years ago. Very cool pictures from a group of people who went urban exploring.
Check it out. 40 years ago someone began to torture us and it is still going on…
A Sydney man is auctioning his life on eBay.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSSYD30599020080318
