Thursday, April 21, 2011
AFP: Thai, Cambodian
AFP: Thai, Cambodian troops in new border clash
Thai, Cambodian troops in new border clash(AFP) – 1 hour ago
BANGKOK — Thai and Cambodian troops exchanged fire on their disputed border, officials said, the latest in a series of clashes between the neighbours.
The fighting broke out early Friday, at the border near Pa Nom Dong Rak district of Thailand's Surin province, Thai army spokesman Colonel Sunsern Kaewkumnerd said.
"I don't know the reason for the clash, which is still going on," he said.
A long-running dispute between the two countries over land near a 900-year-old temple erupted into four days of clashes in February, leaving at least 10 people dead and prompting a UN appeal for a lasting ceasefire.
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Reports: Sen. John E
Reports: Sen. John Ensign to resign from Congress - On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2010 Election - USATODAY.com
Embattled Sen. John Ensign is reportedly going to resign from Congress as early as tomorrow, according to Politico and Roll Call.
The Nevada Republican, who already said he would not run for re-election next year, is being investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee for actions related to an extramartial affair with an aide.
Politico is quoting unnamed aides and Roll Call cites a "well-placed" source.
Ensign, once considered a rising GOP star, said last month he would not seek a third-term next year in part to spare his family from a wrenching campaign that would dredge up details of his affair with Cynthia Hampton.
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Grammy museum to be
Grammy museum to be built in Mississippi Delta - WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS:
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) -WLBT News has learned that a museum devoted to the history of the Grammy Awards will be built in Cleveland, Mississippi, over the next four years.
The first such museum of its kind outside Los Angeles, the 20,000-square-foot facility will be similar in size and scope to the new B.B. King Museum in Indianola, according to a source close to the project.
The museum is being announced at the Mississippi Economic Council's annual meeting at the Jackson Convention Complex. Governor Haley Barbour's office had said that a major tourism announcement would be made at the meeting.
The museum will be located near the campus of Delta State University, which offers courses on Mississippi music. It will feature a full history of the Grammy Awards, with special emphasis on Mississippians' contributions to the world's music.
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Reddit, Quora, Foursquare, Hootsuite Go Down Due To Amazon EC2 Cloud Service Troubles
Amazon's affordable cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Web hosting service has attracted many popular startups in the social media space, and technical issues this morning have taken down several popular services including Foursquare, Reddit, Quora, Hootsuite and Moby.
Amazon obviously has a huge online retail presence, but the company is also one of the world's leading cloud services providers -- startups are drawn to EC2's variable pricing model that lets them scale as they grow. Unfortunately, with these sites being hosted on a single service, a big outage has been able to take down a swath of the social Web.
Highlighting the double-edged sword of centralized cloud hosting, CNET writes that earlier this morning Quora's homepage noted, "We'll be back shortly, we hope. Sorry, it sucks for us too. We'd point fingers, but we wouldn't be where we are today without EC2."
Amazon says it's still working on the issue.
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21 Homeless People Die After Bird Flu Vaccine Experiment
(NaturalNews) According to an article by Matthew Day published in The Telegraph, a group of doctors recruited homeless people in Poland for a vaccine trial and paid them £1-2 (less than five dollars) to be tested with what they were told was a regular flu vaccine. What the unsuspecting, impoverished victims weren't told is that they were actually going to be given a bird flu vaccine. The director of a center for the homeless in Poland claimed that 21 people from his center died last year, when the usual number of deaths in a given year is about eight.The vaccine was apparently given to up to 350 poor and homeless people last year. The medical personnel are disputing the claim by the authorities that the homeless people weren't told that they were testing a bird flu vaccine. There is no information about the level of involvement of the pharmaceutical companies that commissioned the trials at this time.