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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Diabetes: A Silent Killer Disease

January 19, 2011 - In this decade alone, a staggering increase in diabetics in America has been recorded. This disease is silently eating away people’s health without them really knowing it. But diabetes is mostly preventable, treatable, and even reversible. The key is a lifestyle change. If you do a people search today, you’ll be surprised that there is an estimated 80 million Americans that have diabetes or on borderline limit to developing the disease. This has prompted the US government to spend $174 billion each year to treat the disease. There are actually two types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2 diabetes. When you have Type 1 diabetes...

Monday, January 10, 2011

Facebook: Shutting down?

January 11, 2011 – Facebook is shutting down! This has been an issue over the weekend as this bogus announcement which was reported by some publications spread. Records search shows that the said news came from a fake news website Weekly World News (WWN) which is known for "(covering) events that seem to occur in a parallel universe. A fictitious quote from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was even released saying, “The stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness... I don't care about the money... I just want my old life back."Facebook Director of Corporate Communications Larry Yu also confirmed...

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

A second look at the Vizconde Massacre

December 15, 2010 – Philippines, After two decades of seeking for justice, the Vizconde Massacre still has a tight emotional grip on Filipinos. After the Supreme Court upturned the murder conviction of Hubert Webb and six others on December 14 and the world witnessed a weak and inconsolable Lauro Vizconde. Many Filipino gave their insights on the case result; some of them aired their support for Vizconde and his continuing quest for justice. While some opinion is divided over Webb’s innocence, many agreed that 15 years in jail is too short for a guilty man — and too long for an innocent man.If we will do a records search on this case, the said...

Friday, December 10, 2010

Pride of Alaska: Story of Caleb Aronson

Caleb Aronson was a singer-songwriter, unlike usual artist he was raised in North Pole. All of his song writing reflects a uniquely Alaska background.Linvengood(2005) was his first solo double album recorded entirely in Alaska which consist a lot of songs about Alaska history. His second album, From the Next Town was released in 2008.Aronson began playing music around 15, this just happen when he borrowed a guitar to his dad and started to listen to his Dad’s record collections. He says “Looking at music was eye opening”, as he describes studying the written Harvest sheet music while listening to the album and learning to play the songs. His...

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Vietnam takes action: The Police Shooting Prostitution

December 07, 2010 – Vietnam authorities demoted five police officers because of the accusation of filming the arrest of two prostitutes after the video was posted in the internet.According to Vietnam press the said incident occurred around mid-November in which a man wearing blue shirt and yelling repeatedly used of vulgar words against two girls. It is said that the two girls tried to cover themselves but it was the duty to stand up and raised their hands to their capture. People find it easy to search it on the internet after it was posted and being spread which made public discontent. In this act a police spokesman said that the Quang Ninh...

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

DPR fails to conduct Background Checks

December 1, 2010 - The D.C Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) which no longer operates child care centers under the program, failed to meet basic background check requirements. A D.C government agency which received $1 million a year which is use to provide child care services under the federal head program failed to conduct background checks on its employees which includes workers who has previous cases of drug and other felony offenses. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Investigators said that a total of 43 employees failed to meet basic background check.According to the report, the workers includes six DPR drivers who...

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

EU Antitrust Probe targeting Google

November 30, 2010 - Last Tuesday the European Commission announced that they are investigating allegations that Google has abused its dominant position in online search to promote its other services.The European Commission said that they will do some questions on PC manufacturers and software developers to see whether they were pressured by Google to make its search service the default in their products. The investigation was launched following a preliminary examination of complaints received by the Commission from a French legal search engine, and by two price comparators, Foundem of the U.K. and Ciao of Germany.The Companies claim that their...

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