Archive for September, 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
At least 25 people died in the Pacific island states of Samoa and American Samoa after a tsunami was triggered by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake Tuesday, according to reports from the region.
A number of coastal villages were swept away and reports said the death toll was bound to rise as people who were evacuated to higher ground after the shake returned to lower levels.
Local radio stations in American Samoa reported 14 deaths and a Red Cross official in Apia, the capital of neighbouring Samoa, told Radio New Zealand there had been at least 11 deaths in that state.
The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the quake, which was located about 204 km southwest of Samoa, at 8.0 on the Richter scale after earlier estimating it at 8.3.
As after shocks continued to hit the two Samoa states, seismologists reported two further quakes measuring 5.6 and a third of 5.8 in the South Pacific.
Reports said villages on the south coast of Samoa’s main island Upolu had been extensively damaged by the tsunami, which sent waves up to 800 metres inland. (more…)
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
How much do we love this amazing photo from the State Department’s Flickr feed? It shows Barack and Michelle Obama with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his 13- and 16-year-old daughters, clearly enjoying a healthy goth phase. Laura, Alba, we feel your pain; being a teenager sucks.
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Cristina Warthen, a 36-year-old turned into a call girl! In order to pay her bills and student loans, Cristina Warthen aka Cristina Schultz a Stanford Law School graduate co-founded Ask.com, sentenced to home detention for tax evasion on Monday. Cristina ran an escort service and offered “companionship” for $2,000 a night.
The federal prosecutors have briefed in their report that to advertise her services as a call girl “Brazil,” Cristina Warthen was maintaining a Website called “Touchofbrazil.net,” soon after she got her law degree from Stanford in May 2001. Cristina Warthen used to post maximum erotic pictures of herself in order to arouse sex appeal and attract the ‘clients’ who would contact her directly. Eventually in the year 2003, she pleaded guilty, failing to pay taxes on more than $133,000 ‘income’ as a prostitute.
The authorities informed that Christina “engaged in sexual acts in return for money” in the year 2001 and grossed $133,717 in 2003 but failed in paying $25,424, in taxes. (more…)
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