Posted on 23 September 2009.
TYLER — A student was taken into a custody when a teacher known for his love of music died after being stabbed Wednesday at a Texas high school.
Todd R. Henry, 50, was a music therapist at John Tyler High School, according to his brother, Jody Henry. The victim was an “accomplished and respected guitarist,” Jody Henry told The Associated Press.
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Posted on 22 September 2009.
Paris : Criminal charges have been filed in France against the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, the Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux and the Minister of Justice 
Madame Michèle Alliot-Marie for their role in preparing, in secret, a forced “swine flu” mass vaccination campaign starting in September 2009, and also for depriving the people of France of their fundamental civic rights by imposing martial law under the pretext of a pandemic emergency level 6 declaration issued by WHO.
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Posted on 22 September 2009.
(Reuters) – Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O) tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help it to develop implantable virus detection systems in humans.
The patents, held by VeriChip partner Receptors LLC, relate to biosensors that can detect the H1N1 and other viruses, and biological threats such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, VeriChip said in a statement.
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Posted on 21 September 2009.
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On Friday, September 25th the House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a full committee hearing on Ron Paul’s HR.1207 to audit the Federal Reserve. The hearing is slated to begin at 9am eastern time. For details and a link to the (eventual) live streaming video of the hearing check out the committee website. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 September 2009.
Ephraim Sneh, Israel’s deputy defence minister until 2007, said a nuclear-armed Iran was an unacceptable threat to Israel. No Israeli government could put its faith in President Barack Obama’s efforts to bring Tehran to the negotiating table over its nuclear programme, he said. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 September 2009.
MEMPHIS, TN – A federal prison in Memphis has been quarantined because of an outbreak of Swine Flu, according to a court document.
United States Attorney Lawrence J. Laurenzi says in the document, prisoners are not allowed to leave FCI Memphis for court appearances because of the H1N1 quarantine. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 September 2009.
(CNN) — One year ago, a group of college and university presidents and chancellors, eventually totaling 135, issued a statement that garnered national attention.
The “Amethyst Initiative” put a debate proposition before the public — “Resolved: That the 21-year-old drinking age is not working.” It offered, in much the way a grand jury performs its duties, sufficient evidence for putting the proposition to the test. It invited informed and dispassionate public debate and committed the signatory institutions to encouraging that debate. And it called on elected officials not to continue assuming that, after 25 years, the status quo could not be challenged, even improved. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 September 2009.
The defense apparatus in the United Arab Emirates arrested 45 suspects, most of them Palestinian and Lebanese, after the plot to blow up Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) was uncovered. Dubai Tower, currently under construction, is the tallest building in the world.
The current wave of arrests adds to the eight other suspects detained immediately after the plot was revealed one and a half months ago. The detainees were apparently sent as agents of Iran. Read the full story
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Posted on 13 September 2009.
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Posted on 10 September 2009.
September 9, 2009 – The Blueprint 3 is the latest release by rapper Jay-Z; it’s the second sequel to one of his best-known releases, 2001’s The Blueprint. It’s also Jay-Z’s 11th solo album in 13 years, making him one of hip-hop’s most prolific artists. Reviewer Oliver Wang suggests that, even this far into his career, the rapper is still finding ways to stay on top.
In a minute-long ad made to promote The Blueprint 3 and the music service Rhapsody, Jay-Z glides through a photo shoot, restaging every iconic pose from his previous 10 album covers. In the background plays his recent hit with singer Rihanna: “Run This Town.” The commercial is all about reminding people where Jay-Z has been; there’s even a song called “Reminder” on the album. But elsewhere, Jay-Z flips things around, urging listeners to stop dwelling on his past.
If Jay-Z can’t decide whether to focus on the past or the future, he’s clear on where he stands in the present. The Blueprint 3 is keenly conversant with contemporary pop trends, though not always in a friendly manner. The album’s first single, “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune),” critiques the ubiquity of the voice-altering software in today’s pop music.
Despite his disdain for Auto-Tune, Jay isn’t anti-pop. If anything, now that he’s signing multimillion-dollar deals with music promoters such as Live Nation, he’s more of a global entertainer than ever — and he knows it. The Blueprint 3 is easily one of his most commercially savvy albums to date, aiming for relevance in Walmart kiosks, Hollywood clubs and Brooklyn bodegas alike. It helps that the songs are generally brighter, less violent and less drug-oriented than past efforts. Jay-Z also invites on a few current 15-minute famers such as Drake and Kid Cudi. But nowhere are the album’s populist ambitions more clear than in its dance-friendly, electronic-infused rhythms. All kinds of minimalist beeps, burps and claps bump alongside huffing synthesizer vamps and blaring banks of horns.
Though The Blueprint 3 is Jay-Z’s strongest release since coming back from retirement in 2006, overall, it’d only rank somewhere in the middle of his catalog. It lacks the singular cohesion of the original Blueprint album, and Jay-Z’s once-unrivaled flow sounds more pedestrian at times. There’s also the matter of basing a song around Alphaville’s 1984 hit, “Forever Young,” a move that says anything but “forever” or “young.”
To be fair, when you’re on your 11th release (not including collaborations with Linkin Park and R. Kelly), Jay-Z has attained the rap equivalent of Bruce Springsteen or U2 status; each new album aspires to be “an event,” but it becomes harder to reinvent yourself when you’re this deep into a career. That’s why The Blueprint 3’s broad appeal is a powerful statement in its own right. Jay-Z has outlived — literally and figuratively — so many of his peers. And yet, in what could easily have been the twilight of his recording days, he’s still standing, still striving, still shining.
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Posted on 09 September 2009.
MEXICO CITY — Three hijackers threatened to blow up an Aeromexico Boeing 737 that landed at Mexico City’s airport from Cancun Wednesday afternoon, Transport Minister Juan Molinar told Mexican radio. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 September 2009.
ARLINGTON, Va. – In a pep talk that kept clear of politics, President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged the nation’s students to take pride and ownership in their education — and stick with it even if they don’t like every class or must overcome tough circumstances at home. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 September 2009.
Arlington, Virginia September 8, 2009
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Posted on 07 September 2009.
A proposal currently under consideration in the U.S. Congress may soon charge visitors to the United States a $10 entry fee.
The fee will go into a fund used to pay for promoting tourism. By now, I can imagine you are laughing about this (unless you don’t live in the U.S.). The concept of having tourists pay for the PR activities of a country they are already visiting is completely insane.
The idea behind the bill is that promoting tourism should not cost the U.S. taxpayer, something I completely disagree with. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 September 2009.
LOS ANGELES, California, September 1, 2009 (ENS) – The level of inorganic mercury in the blood of American women has been increasing since 1999 and it is now found in the blood of one in three women, according to a new analysis of government data for more than 6,000 American women.
“My study found compelling evidence that inorganic mercury deposition within the human body is a cumulative process, increasing with age and overall in the population over time,” said author Dan Laks, a neuroscience researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 September 2009.
The Codex Alimentarius (Latin for “food code” or “food book”) is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food safety. Read the full story
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Posted on 03 September 2009.
Last night Zero Hedge obtained some interesting documents from the CDC web site. They contain blank ‘forced quarantine’ orders from Iowa and Florida regarding novel H1N1 — including quarantine to a ’secure detention center’– which appear to be recent — dated April 2009. Some may be aware the NIH and CDC just held an H1N1 conference in DC — August 19-21 2009 — that focused on ‘mass fatality management’. For many, this should be cause for concern. Read the full story
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Posted on 29 August 2009.
Michael Jackson didn’t live long enough to celebrate his 51st birthday but his fans remember him everyday. And today, 29th August, is a special day because it is King of Pop’s birthday. Celebrate his life and music on this special occasion. Read the full story
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