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New Jersey Nets to Acquire Carmelo Anthony in a 4-Team Agreement

The New Jersey Nets’ involvement in a strange 4-team deal to be able to acquire Anthony was under discussion on Friday.
Under the proposed agreement, The New Jersey Nets would get Denver Nuggets superstar Anthony, and they will give their 2010 third round draft pick Derrick Favors to the Nuggets, along with starting point guard Devin Harris to the Bobcats. In addition, the Nuggets likewise gets Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko, a draft pick, as well as Charlotte’s Boris Diaw.
The said agreement will depend on the decision of Anthony. Denver’s superstar can choose of his contract next year, and the Nets are assuring that Anthony will be playing for them for longer period before they will release tow of their key players.
According to the Daily News report on Friday, Carmelo Anthony is interested about the deal, yet a person close to the player said there is still no final decision made.
Anthony and the Nuggets may still have an extend-and-trade agreement, if he will agree to sign a 3-year extension worth $56 million upon being traded to the Nets.
The speculation about his decision to transfer to other team is about the status of the Nuggets and his not satisfied with the team’s management. He was actually picking the New York Knicks; however, Nuggets managements were not contented with the young players of Knicks and the discussion did not materialize.
The Knicks would see another blast to their team if the Denver superstars will be playing in Newark after they failed to acquire free-agent superstars Cleveland’s LeBron James and Miami’s Dwayne Wade last two months ago.  Instead, they acquired former Suns center Amar’e Stoudemire.
Two years from now, the Nets will be moving to their new home in downtown Brooklyn, inching them closer to the Knicks.

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PG&E issues list of Top 100 hazardous places of natural gas

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) issued the list of Top 100 hazardous pipeline segments of natural gas.

Furthermore, the PG&E noted that places near or in Silicon Valley such as Livermore, Sunol, Milpitas, Fremont and Peninsula are some of the handful places that have multiple segments.  On the other hand, the California Public Utilities Commission requested the Top 100 list of hazardous pipeline segments following the pipeline outburst happened in San Bruno last September 9 that left three unaccounted for and four deaths.

According to the utility, the documents are used to show the problem about the series of deterioration to land issues and to plan purposes, rather than problems that create an instant risk to the public. In addition, Chris Johns, president of PG&E was questioned by the reports at one press conference regarding about why San Bruno was not in the list where it was also ruptured last September 9.

However, Johns said that the reason of that accident is still being in the process of investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board. He also said that there is an issue concerning safety it is deal with in an instant.

Johns added that they do not place it on the Top 100 list and if there is an issue for safety procedures, they instantly send a team to that place to look for that issue and nothing is more crucial. Moreover, the transmission pipeline is parted into 20,000 segments; some are only few feet long while the others are mile long.

Johns noted that the segments were placed according to their complex algorithm that acquires into report population such as the age of the pipeline and other aspects. In addition, a segment can be high on the Top 100 list because structure is being done close to it.

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Gas line fire close to San Francisco controlled

Firefighters have largely controlled the gas fire on Friday that was brought by a roaring explosion of a gas pipeline, killing four people and devastated 38 homes in a small San Francisco town.

Also, investigators searched the scene to look for clues that can be linked on the explosion on Thursday evening in San Bruno, with almost all of the houses searched by rescue dogs and some are too hot to go into. San Bruno is a small city close to San Francisco International Airport.

In addition, the burst pipeline was owned by service Pacific Gas & Electric Co, resulting to a decrease in shares of more than eight percent by parent company PG&E Corp on Friday.

Moreover, California Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, acting for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who was now embarked on a trade mission in Asia, stated that he wanted a more comprehensive and extensive reports about people calling PG&E about smelling gas right before the blast occurred.

Maldonado added that the investigation is going on as of the moment, stressing that there will be a responsibility as the pipeline is owned by PG&E.

Officials also said that at least four people were killed in the explosion and some 58 more were injured. As of this moment, there are still a few hundred firefighters in the site of the blast.

Furthermore, San Bruno Fire Chief Dennis Haag told a news conference on Friday afternoon that they have now asked for two supplementary urban search and rescue squads to help them as there is rather a bit of debris and rubble that has to be unfurnished.

Maldonado, who at this time declared a state of emergency to speed up assistance to the city and the people affected, has seen melted cares and sewage over the street when he personally went to the site.

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Samsung unveils Galaxy Tab

The South Korean corporation introduces its contribution to the race to fill the gap between a smartphone and a laptop, the Galaxy Tab.

Galaxy runs on Android 2.2; it has a 7-inch touchscreen monitor with a 1024 by 600 pixels resolution. It is equipped with a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor and 16 GB of internal storage.

According to Samsung, although Galaxy has a higher resolution compared to other smarthones running on Android, 85 to 90 percent of the applications available on the Android market is compatible with the tablet. The company also said that it is already in talks with the developers of some of the most popular applications that do not work on the Galaxy to help them convert their applications.

Instead of Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED), which Samsung uses on its smartphones, Galaxy is fitted with a Thin Film Transistor (TFT)-based screen. This is for the tablet to have a longer battery life and lower the cost of the tablet.

The tablet is fitted with a MicroSD slot that can expand its storage capacity up to 32GB.

The Tab has a 1.3-megapixel camera in the front for video calls or conferencing, and a 3-megapixel camera with LED on the back. Galaxy is lighter weighing only 380 grams compared to the iPad that weighs 730 grams. It measures 19 centimeters in length, 12centimeters in width, and 1.2 centimeters in depth.

Two of the main features that Galaxy has over Apple’s iPad are that the Galaxy can make phone calls and it is a way lighter. Samsung said that the Galaxy Tab a product that people on the o can use, while iPad is for the living room.

The Galaxy Tab is the first hopefully not the last tablet form Samsung.

Samsung is yet to unveil the pricing for the Galaxy Tablet.

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Stimulus Program of Obama Creates 3.3 M Jobs

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the stimulus package of President Barack Obama saved or created almost 3.3 million jobs in the last quarter and it also lowered the unemployment rate by almost 1.8 percent.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is a program worth $814 billion that is used to add almost 1.7 percent and 4.5 percent to the gross domestic product (GDP) for three months starting on June. According to the nonpartisan agency, the program greatly affected the GDP from June to August.

According to the nonpartisan agency, the effects of the ARRA will surely fade in the second half of 2010 onwards. The ARRA has really affected the employment and unemployment rate in the country but it is expected to diminish behind the effects on the output. The program is expected to fade in 2011 beyond.

Different companies across the U.S. added a lot of workers in July to a rate that implies the economy will be very slow in recovering almost 8.4 million jobs that are lost when the recession began in December 2007. The recession kept the consumer spending from increasing because people restrained their selves in buying stuffs because of unemployment.

According to Ben S. Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, economic growth slowed in the last quarter and he described the outlook as unusually uncertain. According to the commerce department, the update on the U.S. GDP on August 27, 2010 may show results that the economy has improved 1.4 percent on the second quarter, which is considered as the weakest quarter of the recovery that has began in the middle of last year. It is lower compared to the 2.4 percent rate that is calculated a month ago.

The projected cost of the stimulus is $787 billion and it reached $862 billion in January and it has lowered to $814 billion this month.

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Iran unveils long-range unmanned bomber

Iran unveiled Karrar, a long range unmanned bomber on Sunday as an addition to its military advances.

Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the weapon “messenger of glory and salvation for humanity” but an “ambassador of death” for Iran’s enemy, in a ceremony to mark the country’s Defense Industry Day.

According to the reports of the media owned by the stae, the “destroyer” as its name means, can carry up to four cruise missiles and has a range of 620 miles.

The announcement was made a day after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Iran’s first nuclear plant. Iran always stated that their nuclear program is not meant to harm other countries or states. However, Israel and other Arab and western nations expressed deep concerns the possibility of Iran making bombs using its nuclear.

The unmanned bomber is the third military aircraft announced this year. Iran also unveiled new submarines, long range missiles, and showed plans to launce high-altitude satellites. Israel and the United States both said that they would not rule out an airstrike to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb.

Iran held the unveiling ceremony at Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, which American Intelligence community suspects to have links with the controversial Revolutionary Guard; which is a branch of Iran’s military. President Ahmadinejad used provocative language to call on Western powers to engage Iran in dialogue.

“They tell us all options are on the table. We also say to them, all options are on the table,” he said in comments broadcast on state television. “The first option is for you to come down from your tower of pride and sit like polite children and talk.”

“Come down,” he repeated. “If you do not, the hands of the peoples of the world will bring you down.”

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Bildeberg Films Unfolds Truth about Global Politics, President Obama’s True Image

Two related films about Bilderberg group reveals reality behind global politics and U.S. President Obama.

Recently, two films created by Alex Jones were release titled “Endgame” and “Obama Deception”. These films claim to expose facts behind deception made by Bilderberg Group, which is about monopoly on world politics, economics, and culture, and the other tackles about the supposedly “real” background of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement is an American documentary film created by Alex Jones in 2007, aims to show to the public the 2006 meeting took place in Ottawa, Canada. Bilderberg Group is known as an unofficial, invitation-only conference held annually for around 130 participants. Most participants on this activity are people who have great influence in the fields of banking, politics, media, business and military. All of this group’s conference is normally closed to the public, but now it will be exposed and bares everything on this film.

As for the the other film “Obama Deception”, it focuses much on the attempt to dispel the true identity of U.S. President Barack Obama as a homegrown man of the people favoring another trickery of him as among of the puppets for Bilderberg. Here, it will feature why President Obama was specifically chosen for office by Bilderberg personalities.

Now, the question is, what does these videos try to imply? Are these made to degrade people’s reputation and use against them? Does Alex Jones really on to something and attempting to reveal what kind of world we are living in? According to the prisonplanet.com, it is the latter that’s the case, and these two films presented to the public have really blown Bilderberg’s conspiracy. However, the only way you can decide on what these films about is by watching it personally; both of which can be found in full version at prisonplanet.com

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BP Promises Cleanup Operation in Grand Isle

According to reports, BP promised to clear the shorelines of Grand Isle in Louisiana to make things right for the people in the Gulf of Mexico.

The cleanup of BP in the shorelines of Grand Isle started on May for about 1,600 permanent residents of the area. Almost 1,000 cleanup workers who are boarding in fishing camps, motels, and cottages arrived in the area to clean it. The contractors of BP paid several times the rate for the accommodations of the cleanup workers. Competition started between the realtors and landlords in the area because of the offer made by BP. Almost $100 per head is offered to landlords and realtors per night for the housing of the cleanup workers.

According to reports, the cleanup workers, which is mostly African American and Latino, went out of the town and wore their pants down. They went to the town with stereos and cruised the whole night. According to BP officials, some of the cleanup workers have criminal records.

The people of the town became angry because of what the workers did. The shock on the oil spill turned into anger because of the workers. According to the people of Grand Isle, the cleanup workers can be compared to an invading army because of what they did. The anger was also directed to the owners of businesses who brag about their $30,000 earnings per month because of the BP cleanup workers.

According to town leaders, some of the local people are anxious and jealous because of the oil spill disaster that really affected their livelihood. They said that it is the first time that the residents of Grand Isle started locking their doors at night. According to Peggy Chighizola, secretary to the chief of police, they tried to tell the people that there are no crimes in Grand Isle but the people are not used to strangers.

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Former WWE wrestler Lance Cade dies

Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Lance Cade died on Friday morning of what is believed to have been a heart failure at the age of 29.

Lance McNaught in real life has numerous runs with WWE since joining in 2000 that includes a prominent tag-team with Trevor Murdoch, and was able to join the Chris Jericho’s protégé before he was released in 2008.

McNaught, who was one of the original wrestling students of Shawn Michaels at the Michaels’ Wrestling Academy in San Antonio, Texas and worked for the WWE using the ring name Lance Cade. Because of his tall and thin body frame as well as athletic skills, he was compared to a young Barry Windham. After his few appearances for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) in Japan, Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) and Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), he was immediately given the opportunity to sign a contract with the WWF.

In 2003, he was able to join the prominent group to form a team along with Mark Jindrak competing for the Wrestlemania XX matchup. Eventually, Cade was brought back to WWE developmental and came back as the partner of Trevor Murdoch, which they became one of the dominant WWE Tag Teams.

His most dominant appearances in WWE when he became second to Chris Jericho during the superior feud of Jericho against Shawn Michaels. However, because of the incident on a plane where he took several painkillers and went into a convulsive attack, Cade was immediately relieved from the WWE. The aircraft had to be change direction to be able to save his life.

WWE eventually decided to give him a second chance by bringing him back only for a one year deal, but released him without definite reason. Although there had been some rumors, that he is seeking for assistance because of private matters. The company then decided to help him by sending him to the rehab. Cade was a bit disappointed with his released because he felt that the contract he had signed is not followed. However, a source close to the company said that the management and wrestlers, who worked with Cade before, rejected the claim secretly.

Unfortunately, today Cade leaves behind his two young daughters.

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Expert GP Sees Parental Smoking Causes Cot Death

Professor Steve Field of the Royal College of General Practitioners pointed out that parents need to be responsible to stop the deadly result of smoking to their children, especially during pregnancy, which result cot death.

American experts studied that parental smoking caused most of the accounted death among children. Many children became victims of parental smoking and died in a young age due to the effect of the smokes to their body rather than accident

As a result, the Royal College of the Practitioners was asking the federal to create a policy that will prevent and ban smokers in public areas, cars and places where parents carries their children.

They are seeking for a smoke free legislation. According to the Department of Health, the sector already released their limitations and restrictions to the pubs, cars and public areas.

According to Public Health Minister Anne Milton the anti-smoking campaign of their smoke free legislation, resulted to work very well in public and private places to be free from second hand smoke.  They have noticed that many household are now regulating their home to be a smoke free place for their children. Parents are now more careful about their children’s health. They reduced their children’s exposure from hazardous smoke.

They are aware about the things the public are doing at this point of time. As they observed, people are giving their deep support for a smoke free state, supporters of the campaign are now growing. It was a possible remark for them that there are significant numbers of smokers are now supporting the law. Due to the things they have observed with regard to the actions been made by the people. The public health minister said that there is no reason to review the law.

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