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Story: The article I read today was about that police are searching for three suspects who robbed an EB Games store at 5454 Grossmont Center Drive. One suspect was armed with a semi-automatic pistol. A 19-year-old female clerk was on the clock when the robbers took her to a back room and bound her with duct tape. Several computer games and some additional games were taken from the store and they proceeded through the front door with the employee’s purse, cell phone and keys. The suspects were described as: Suspect #1 - Black Male Adult in his 20’s, tall and thin with no facial hair, wearing a white or gray long sleeve sweater or shirt and black baggie pants. Suspect #2 - Hispanic Male Adult in his 20’s with short black hair, mustache, light complexion, wearing a black and red short sleeve shirt, blue jeans and armed with a semi-auto pistol. Suspect #3 - Hispanic Male Adult wearing a white long sleeve shirt and a white ball cap.
My opinion about this article is they should of thought of if they catch them they are going to get charged bad.
Why would you want to rob a game.
Why did he rob a game store and not a bank.
One interesting fact is I think that you should just buy the stupid game not rob it.
The businessman arrived at the Treasury Department carrying a suitcase stuffed with about $5.2 million in petrified, nearly unrecognizable bills. He asked to swap it for a cashier's check The money brought in by Franz Felhaber was nearly unrecognizable, like the water damaged money here. Money like this normally arrives after a bank burns or a vault floods. It doesn't just show up at the visitor's entrance on a Tuesday morning. But Franz Felhaber's banking habits had stopped making sense to the government long ago. For years, authorities say, he and his family have popped in and out of U.S. banks, looking to change about $20 million in decaying $100 bills for clean cash, offering ever-changing stories It was an inheritance.
I think that money is money to a certain point but what ever you have to do to get money you do it. So if it means going to bank to bank you do it.
“Dream of spaceflight takes wing”
►Today I read on the newspaper that Visionary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan and British billionaire Richard Branson yesterday rolled out a “mothership” aircraft that has the capacity of carrying their dreams of personal spaceflight for the masses. The giant plane is designed to serve as the first stage in an audacious flight plan by transporting an eight-person rocket plane into the stratosphere for launch into space. Branson intends to offer suborbital flights aboard the rocket plane to tourists for $200,000 apiece. Rutan and Branson, who joined forces after the historic flight of Rutan's SpaceShipOne in 2004, invited journalists and space enthusiasts to the Mojave Air and Space Port for the debut. The WhiteKnightTwo showcased yesterday is a bigger version of the aircraft that carried SpaceShipOne to its high-altitude launch four years ago. The historic flight, which was backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, enabled Rutan's team to claim a $10 million prize for developing the world's first private reusable spacecraft.
►I agree because it is ADEQUATE.
►I also agree because this is not to be ANNUAL is going to be every week.
►I agree because this is an ATTRIBUTE for people.
►I think the most interesting fact is that people is going to be able to be on the space without being astronauts.
Today on the cnn website I read an article about a businessman that arrived at the Treasury Department carrying a suitcase stuffed with about $5.2 million in petrified, nearly unrecognizable bills. He asked to swap it for a cashier's check. Money like this normally arrives after a bank burns or a vault floods. It doesn't just show up at the visitor's entrance on a Tuesday morning. But Franz Felhaber's banking habits had stopped making sense to the government long ago. For years, authorities say, he and his family have popped in and out of U.S. banks, looking to change about $20 million in decaying $100 bills for clean cash, offering ever-changing stories. Felhaber's is a customs broker. His company, F.C. Felhaber & Co., navigates the customs bureaucracy in El Paso, Texas, where tens of billions of dollars in Mexican goods enter each year.
Study:More Americans are Dying from Mixing OTC Drugs with Alcohol
More Americans than ever are dying from mixing prescription or over-the-counter medications with alcohol, street drugs or both, according to a new UC San Diego study.
The study found that the percentage of deaths attributed to medication misuse has risen nearly 3,200 percent over the past two decades, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Dr. Joseph Scherger, spokesman for the San Diego County Medical Society,called the study "groundbreaking" and told the newspaper that Phillips' conclusions should prompt government agencies to investigate which interactions between medications, alcohol and street drugs are causing the most deaths.
Scherger also told the Union-Tribune that the study should give rise to greater restrictions on when doctors should prescribe potent drugs and encourage medical examiners to more closely scrutinize and report deaths resulting from medication errors.
The study was conducted by sociologist David Phillips and published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Phillips reviewed a federal database of nearly 50 million deaths between 1983 and 2004, according to the Union-Tribune. He focused on the roughly 200,000 files that listed "fatal medication error" as causing or contributing to a fatality.
The 40-49 age group showed the largest percentage increase in fatal medication error deaths, followed by the 50-59 age bracket, the newspaper reported.
Phillips' study could not determine where the affected patients had obtained their medications or whether they got the drugs legally, according to the Union-Tribune.
Today in the union tribune, I read that Troubled pop star Amy Winehouse spent the night in a London hospital after suffering a reaction to a medication she was taking at home Monday night, according to her spokeswoman. Tracey Miller said she could not say what medication was involved. A statement from University College Hospital said Winehouse had been kept in overnight for observation. She had a comfortable night and was released Tuesday morning, the statement said. London Ambulance Service said it transported the singer after being notified of an adult female taken unwell. Winehouse's spokesman in London, Chris Goodman, told the British Press Association that he had not been told what was wrong with the 24-year-old singer, who is well known for her song Rehab, describing the singer's reluctance to enter a clinic. The pop singer was investigated this year after a London tabloid made public a leaked home video that showed her smoking something in a glass pipe minutes after she was heard saying she had just taken six tablets of the anti-anxiety drug Valium. Police declined to file charges. The singer has battled drug addiction and spent about two weeks in a rehabilitation clinic in January. Winehouse won five Grammy awards this year -- three for Rehab as well as Album of the Year and Best New Artist. Winehouse's Grammy winning album, Back to Black, is still a big seller, recently charting at No. 12 in the UK more than 19 months after its release. Madame Toussaud's London wax museum recently unveiled a wax statue of Winehouse alongside Madonna, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce and other musicians in the museum's Music Zone exhibit.
On CNN news today I read about a man who tried to take old money to a bank to get money. The businessman arrived at the Treasury Department carrying a suitcase stuffed with about $5.2 million in petrified, nearly unrecognizable bills. He asked to swap it for a cashier's check. Money like this normally arrives after a bank burns or a vault floods. It doesn't just show up at the visitor's entrance on a Tuesday morning. But Franz Felhaber's banking habits had stopped making sense to the government long ago. For years, authorities say, he and his family have popped in and out of U.S. banks, looking to change about $20 million in decaying $100 bills for clean cash, offering ever-changing stories:
• It was an inheritance.• Somebody dug up a tree and there it was.
On CNN news today I read about a man who tried to take old money to a bank to get money. The businessman arrived at the Treasury Department carrying a suitcase stuffed with about $5.2 million in petrified, nearly unrecognizable bills. He asked to swap it for a cashier's check. Money like this normally arrives after a bank burns or a vault floods. It doesn't just show up at the visitor's entrance on a Tuesday morning. But Franz Felhaber's banking habits had stopped making sense to the government long ago. For years, authorities say, he and his family have popped in and out of U.S. banks, looking to change about $20 million in decaying $100 bills for clean cash, offering ever-changing stories:
• It was an inheritance.• Somebody dug up a tree and there it was.
Today the article I read wads about the wild fires in Yosemite, the wild fire has destroyed 300 homes and has put 4,000 other homes in danger. More than 46 square miles of mostly wilderness terrain have burned since a target shooter sparked the wildfire on Friday. The fire was 10 percent contained Monday night as it burned about 12 miles from Yosemite National Park. This is like an on going cycle every year since 2005 there has been long lasting wildfires each year, hopefully firefighters could get this wildfire under control.
IN WASHINGTON (AP) -- The businessman arrived at the Treasury Department carrying a suitcase stuffed with about $5.2 million in petrified, nearly unrecognizable bills. He asked to swap it for a cashier's check.
The money brought in by Franz Felhaber was nearly unrecognizable, like the water damaged money here.
Money like this normally arrives after a bank burns or a vault floods. It doesn't just show up at the visitor's entrance on a Tuesday morning.
But Franz Felhaber's banking habits had stopped making sense to the government long ago.
For years, authorities say, he and his family have popped in and out of U.S. banks, looking to change about $20 million in decaying $100 bills for clean cash, offering ever-changing stories:
• It was an inheritance. • Somebody dug up a tree and there it was. • It was found in a suitcase buried in an alfalfa field • A relative found a treasure map.
That buried treasure stands to make someone rich. It could also send someone to jail.
Felhaber's is a customs broker. His company, F.C. Felhaber & Co., navigates the customs bureaucracy in El Paso, Texas, where tens of billions of dollars in Mexican goods enter each year.
Discrete deposits
If discretion were the goal, Felhaber went about it all wrong. Rather than making one exchange at the Treasury, Felhaber allegedly began trying to exchange smaller amounts at El Paso-area banks, raising suspicion every time.
In 2005, authorities say he arranged a $120,000 exchange at the Federal Reserve Bank in El Paso, with the money being wired to an account belonging to his uncle, Jose Carrillo-Valles.
Banks normally refer such requests to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, an arm of the Treasury. The $120,000 exchange was an exception. Investigators say Felhaber wasn't so lucky elsewhere.
Unanswered questions
"They take you to your word like you're supposed to remember every single thing every single time," he said.
Maybe it was the visit from federal agents or perhaps someone realized the bank visits weren't working. But the strategy apparently changed.
In January 2006, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing received a package containing about $136,000 from Jose Carrillo-Valles, Felhaber's uncle. A letter explained the money had been stored in a basement for 22 years.
There was no evidence of a crime, just unanswered questions. So the Treasury mailed a check, which Carrillo-Valles deposited. Yet when authorities followed the money, he and his wife denied knowing about it, according to a government affidavit.
And the $120,000 wired to Carrillo-Valles' account a year earlier from the Federal Reserve? The couple said it was an inheritance.
Authorities don't believe that. They traced a wire transfer from Carrillo-Valles' account to someone named Saenz-Pardo, suggesting that Carrillo-Valles was an intermediary who took a cut of the money and sent the rest to Mexico.
Twice, reporters called Carrillo-Valles. First, he said he spoke no English. When a Spanish-speaking reporter called, he said he could not hear her and he hung up.
The case became a criminal investigation in April 2007. ICE agents called the Justice Department, saying Felhaber had just arrived at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing with $1.2 million.
Finding money is not a crime, but there are rules about its importation. Import documents identified Carrillo-Valles as owning the $1.2 million. Authorities believe that was a lie -- a violation carrying up to five years in prison.
But federal prosecutor William Cowden sat on his hands, in case Felhaber tried to exchange even more money.
He did.
This April, Felhaber returned with $5.2 million. Investigators found no import documents this time, a smuggling violation that also carries up to five years in prison.
Prosecutors moved in. Felhaber's Treasury visits gave them probable cause to seize a combined $6.4 million. Authorities told a federal magistrate they suspected it was buried drug money.
Stephen A. Schneider, an ICE investigator, dismissed every other explanation as "conflicting and cockamamie stories."
$6.4 million seized
China
China has rejected a new report released that condemns China for its violation of human rights. China had made a promise saying that they would respect foreign media and that they would not arrest people without giving them trial and also they would reconsider the death penalty. Yet in the past months that the foreign media has been in China there have been a lot of arrest seizures of cameras and other equipment. The thing is that China’s government doesn’t want anybody to ruin their reputation of “harmony” and “stability”. (Yeah like that’s the way the world sees your country) One of the most notorious cases is that of a housing rights activist named Ye Guozhu who was arrested for quarreling and disrupting the demolition of buildings to make way for the Olympic games. He is serving a four year sentence and he was supposed to be released July 26 but authorities say that he will not be released until after the Olympic sometime after October 1st Didn’t people warn the Olympics and the rest of the world that things like this would happen? Well, these are the fruits that they sow.
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