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Virginia Tech Shooting
Virginia tech university posted the alert on its website and its official Twitter account. The Roanoke Times also reported that the university sounded its emergency sirens and issued an emergency alert by phone and email.
faced a scare Thursday as authorities ordered a campus lockdown after three youths reported seeing a man carrying what they believed to be a gun concealed by a cloth. Alerts were issued. Classes were canceled. Students were urged to stay indoors. And for more than five hours, police from several law enforcement agencies scoured the campus, even releasing a composite sketch as they searched for the reported gunman.
Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. In two separate attacks, approximately two hours apart, the perpetrator, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded 25 others before committing suicide. The massacre is the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in U.S. history.
Update information: they don’t have any indication that there is a “gunman” at the school, only a man with a gun, as one of our commenters pointed out.
Milwaukee Brewers have been engaged in some bitter battles
The most recent one was Tuesday night’s game, a game that got out of control in the late innings, Milwaukee Brewers out-muscled the St. Louis Cardinals this afternoon, 10-5, to wrap up an 8-1 home stand.
In the seventh inning with the Brewers up by a run, Brewers reliever Takashi Saito allowed consecutive singles to open up the inning, which put runners on the corners with no out and Albert Pujols stepping up to the dish. With the count 1-0, Saito’s fastball tailed inside and drilled Pujols in the hand, admittedly a bit close to his head. Pujols appeared to be in severe pain, but he remained in the game. The Cardinals would tie the game, but the Brewers were able to control the damage & limit the Cards to only one run in the inning.
Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Recently they playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball’s National League. team is named for the city’s association with the brewing industry and plays it’s home games at Miller Park.
from yahoo sport
Make your Phone as your Wallet
Last Month google announces about Google wallet, from it’s name you can guess what it is used for, but now it’s still limited in use and still under development, we’ll wait the good news from google, for easy and helpfull technologies
Google Wallet is a mobile app, it will do more than a regular wallet ever could. You’ll be able to store your credit cards, offers, loyalty cards and gift cards, but without the bulk. When you tap to pay, your phone will also automatically redeem offers and earn loyalty points for you. Someday, even things like boarding passes, tickets, ID and keys could be stored in Google Wallet.
as announced on Make your phone your wallet
Winklevoss Twins VS Facebook
From Winklevoss Twins VS Facebook case that Facebook is built on open source technologies, but it’s not the tech that the Winklevoss’ have issue with, it’s Zuckerberg.
as judge quote
“At some point, litigation must come to an end,” Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote.
Indeed, he is utilizing open up supply software program to attain individuals objectives. Software program by itself nevertheless is just the main formula. Another element is actually management and that is not really something which the actual Winklevoss’ actually supplied in order to facebook.
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