WESTFIELD, Mass. Police in this western Massachusetts town say they have seized a digital camera with images of celebrity couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Africa for an investigation by Los Angeles authorities. Local police, accompanied by state police and Secret Service officers, went to the Westfield home of William Keys on Tuesday to recover a digital camera's memory stick after three photos that appeared on the Internet were tracked to Keys, police said Friday. Officers then went to Precision Camera and Video Repair in Enfield, Conn., where Keys works, and recovered the camera. It remains in custody of Westfield police.
No one has been arrested or charged in the case. It was unclear who took the photos. Keys did not return telephone calls Friday. "It's an ongoing investigation, and we cannot comment," said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County prosecutor's office.
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If the police in our village were doing something like this, I'd be at the next village council meeting petitioning to decrease the size of the police by a couple of officers -- obviously there's no more major crime in our village if they have time to do this, so let's save some money.
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Secret Service? Jeebus...we need to lose a couple of them too - put em on the Movie Industries' payroll. They appear to be working for them and not for us.
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You got to clear out the jpeg info on photos that can lead to you before posting.
Lots of software to twiddle with that stuff.
Its a good place to put the real names of photo and such. See comment area here
The real interesting info is shoehorned in with EXIF Wikipedia on EXIF
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The metadata tags defined in the Exif standard cover a broad spectrum including:
* Date and time information. Digital cameras will record the current date and time and save this in the metadata.
* Camera settings. This includes static information such as the camera model and make, and information that varies with each image such as orientation, aperture, shutter speed, focal length, metering mode, and film speed information. * Location information, which could come from a GPS receiver connected to the camera. As of 2004 only a few cameras support this, though. Some people therefore use a normal receiver to track their movements, and then post-process the images by matching the timestamps in the images with the log from the receiver and can so add the missing information to images.
* Descriptions and copyright information. Again this is something which is most often done when post-processing the images, as only high-end camera models let the user choose a text for these fields. (Although this feature is becoming more and more apparent even in lower end compact digital cameras).
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With the Cubs so close to winning, fans littered Wrigley Field with plastic bottles, cups, and other debris Saturday after A.J. Pierzynski hit a two-out, ninth-inning homer to send the White Sox to an 8-6 victory.
The game was delayed nearly five minutes as security and the grounds crew came out to pick up the litter. Most of it fell on the warning track in the outfield, although some items, including a baseball, came out of the stands from behind the Cubs' dugout.
"I guess they can voice their opinions however they want to," Cubs center fielder Juan Pierre said. "They shouldn't throw anything on the field. It was sad. It was frustrating for us to lose a game and have the fans react like this."
Much of the anger apparently was directed at Cubs closer Ryan Dempster, who retired the first two batters in the ninth with the Cubs leading 6-5. But two straight batters then reached base ahead of Pierzynski's homer. Shortly after Pierzynski rounded the bases and got in the dugout, items began sailing onto the field. The Cubs are 1-11 in their last 12 homes games.
Pierzynski has been in the center of the rivalry all season, first after he was punched by the Cubs' Michael Barrett on May 20, setting off a brawl. "You don't want to see anyone throw anything on the field," Pierzynski said. "You understand when your guy hits a home run and they throw the home run ball back. But you don't expect them to throw cups and throw everything else. ... You fear for Jacque (Jones), you fear for Juan Pierre and you fear for the outfielders and you fear for some fans who aren't doing anything and they might have the opportunity to get hurt."
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5th Blown Save for Dustbunnies closer, R. Dumpster. (Closed out the Cubs real good.) Worst season since 1962 and the bleacher bums still act better than Yankee fans....
For some reason Cadbury wasn't mentioned until 4th sentence / paragraph. Chocolate salmonella linked to more products
Food experts fear that the salmonella bug which has led to the recall of a million bars of chocolate may be in as many as 30 additional products.
Fears have been raised because the mix used in the seven products that were taken off the shelves was also the base ingredient in other brands.
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Roaches and mice in the M+M factory and Salmonella in the Cadburys?
Good thing it isn't Valentine's day
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Cadbury first detected a rare strain of salmonella in samples of its chocolate crumb - a sugar, milk and cocoa mix - in January. The company told the FSA of the contamination on June 19
see anything wrong here?
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Joe's not a conservative, but he's a member of the loyal opposition.
Since the Vietnam war, liberalism has shifted leftward, particularly on the use of force and on the social issues that emerged in the 1970s. Today, we are confronted by another totalitarian foe, in the form of radical jihadism, and there is a need for progressive leadership that can forcefully defend America and our values.
Joe Lieberman, more than any other national Democrat, represents the JFK tradition in the national Democratic Party. Like so many others of his generation, including former President Bill Clinton, Lieberman came of age politically with the 1960 election of John F. Kennedy.
In addition to being a standard-bearer for the party's tradition of equal opportunity and upward mobility, Kennedy was a muscular internationalist who understood that force was sometimes necessary in order to protect the nation's freedom and security. As Lieberman notes: "I am a Democrat. I believe in the Democratic Party. I believe in the vision of JFK and, I must say, the vision of Bill Clinton."
That tradition is now being challenged by the left in the Democratic party. Driven by a motley coalition of left-wing bloggers and the MoveOn.org crowd, a serious primary challenge has been launched against Lieberman. However, if Lieberman is defeated, a disastrous message would be sent to the nation that centrist hawks are unwelcome in the Democratic Party.
The Connecticut Senate primary is nothing short of a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. That is why outside left-wing groups have converged on this state.
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Fits in with GW, who seems by his record also to be a JFK Democrat. Just shows how far off the left the old Democratic Party has dropped.
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RFK may have been totally unqualified, but in my opinion he turned out to be a much better than average attorney general. I cannot say as much for his tenure as US Senator. (He also set the precedent for Hillary's carpetbagging move to the US Senate.)
Gov. Jon S. Corzine shut down the state government Saturday after a deadline to adopt a new balanced budget expired, bringing road construction projects to a halt and furloughing tens of thousands of state employees indefinitely. State parks, beaches and historic sites were expected to close Wednesday _ the day after the July Fourth holiday. It was a grim climax to a bitter dispute with Corzine's fellow Democrats in the Assembly over his plan to increase the sales tax. "It gives me no joy, no satisfaction, no sense of empowerment to do what I'm forced to do here," Corzine said.
About 45,000 state employees were immediately furloughed. The order allows Corzine to keep 36,000 state employees working without pay. Services such as state police, prisons, mental hospitals and child welfare were to keep operating. Casinos could be forced to close because they require state monitoring, but the casino industry was challenging that in court.
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This guy is one of the "National Democrat Leaders." This is what they have planned, raise taxes or else.
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"The order allows Corzine to keep 36,000 state employees working without pay."
This clown's on track to becoming even more popular than Jim Florio.
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Take solace in the 3 facts I find most entertaining about this goofball:
1) he spent several millions of his own money to prove that his Senate career was an accurate predictor of what could be expected - without the cover of numbers
2) he's not in the Senate anymore, screwing all of us
3) if you don't live in NJ you can laugh your ass off with impunity. If you do live in NJ, my condolences, but NJ did elect him.
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"The order allows Corzine to keep 36,000 state employees working without pay."
Ummm, I seem to remember something about Lincoln and slavery; can't quite put my finger on it at the moment. It was a while back, though, to maybe it no longer applies.
Or maybe it only applied in Southern states....
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Sorry Barbara, but back in the 70s when the Dems controlled the Congress, we spent a month without pay in the military as they whined and squelled about the Defense Budget. We were told not to cash the checks cause they'd bounce. This wasn't a classic another 30 day extension thingy either. Finally in the second month, Congress did do an extension for the rest of the year. No new monies, no pay raises, all sorts of complications. So while we were eventually repaid for month, there was no pay in the bank. Which meant of course families couldn't count on paying rent, utilities, and arrangements were made for them to eat in the dining facilities. The Dems then and now had no shame.
Two people, including a notary public, have been charged in connection with a suspected phony document scam in Fredericksburg. Claudia Maria Zuluga-Agudelo, 38, of Richmond was indicted on 18 charges this week by a Fredericksburg grand jury. The charges include conspiracy, forgery, impersonating a notary, selling fake licenses and obtaining money by false pretenses. Lizzette Hagen, 42, of Ashland, a notary public, is charged with three conspiracy charges, according to documents filed in Fredericksburg Circuit Court. She was also indicted this week.
It was not clear last night whether either woman had been arrested or exactly what their alleged roles were. City police Detective James Kuebler is heading the investigation and was not available for comment. But court records show that the charges are the result of an investigation that began Jan. 30 when a woman told city police that a business in Westwood Office Park was performing illegal document transactions for Spanish-speaking customers.
In an affidavit for a search warrant filed in Circuit Court, the woman said she went to "Tramites La Guadalupana" to get documents notarized so that her husband, a Mexican citizen, could obtain legal residence here. A woman named "Claudia Marie" notarized three documents with the notary seal of Hagen. Claudia Marie didn't administer an oath nor ask for identification from the customer, court records state. The employee also gave the customer a flier written in Spanish offering such things as international driver's licenses, business licenses, DMV registration and tax ID numbers and other services. The customer reported seeing several sets of Virginia license plates in plastic packaging inside a drawer at the business.
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REDMOND - Gov. Ted Kulongoski urged mourners at an emotional community memorial for Pfc. Tom Tucker on Saturday to "learn more from the way he lived than from the horrific way he had to die."
Kulongoski called Tucker, 25, who was kidnapped and killed by Iraqi insurgents last month, "the best Oregon had to give."
About 3,500 people gathered at the Hooker Creek Events Center at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds to honor the Madras soldier, who had been in Iraq since February. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., described courage as "not the absence of fear but the recognition of fear and the ability to move forward in spite of it." When it came to that test, he said, Tucker "passed in abundance."
Walden said he did not know Tucker, "but like most Oregonians - indeed, like all Americans - we owe him a debt of gratitude we will never be able to pay."
Beside the all-too-familiar sight of a flag-draped coffin, a bagpiper played "Amazing Grace," and a helmet sat atop an upstanding rifle - the familiar memorial to a fallen soldier - as a slide show depicted Tucker from infancy through his teenage years, high school graduation and induction into the military, detailing the life that was lost - his love of baseball and basketball, his mischievious nature and more.
His older sister, Tayva, said, "I can hear Tom telling me, 'Be strong. Don't stress out, and have fun.' "
She recalled a time when one of his high school classmates became a teenage mother, and her friends turned their backs on her. She said he was the first one to go to the hospital with a rose for her. "Tommy, before he left, he said, 'I will be one of the men in your life that'll never leave you, whether I come back or not,'" she recalled. "He said, 'I'll be here for you forever, no matter what.'"
"I love you lots," she told her departed brother. "I'm going to be proud of you for the rest of my life, and your legacy is going to live on."
The governor told the assembled mourners, "A young man whom only a year ago was working construction, playing piano and smiling his way into the hearts of everyone he met is suddenly a fallen American hero." And he recalled what Tucker had told his parents: "'I'm going to defend my country.' He stayed true to his word, just as he stayed true to his family."
The Rev. Lee McCloud of the New Hope Christian Center of Madras, which Tucker attended, recalled his last meetings with the soldier. "Tom was wrestling questions that are on all of our minds: What's life all about?" McCloud said. He said Tucker told him, "All I want to know is that all is OK."
After the service, a lengthy funeral procession traveled 30 miles north on Highway 97 to the Mount Jefferson Memorial Park in Madras, where more than 300 mourners looked on as Tucker was buried with full military honors, including posthumous presentation to his parents of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for meritorious service, followed by a Blackhawk helicopter flyover.
Tucker worked in landscaping, construction and other jobs before joining the military a year ago.
Brig. Gen. Gregg Martin of the 101st Airborne Division said Tucker "gave all a mortal can give. He belongs to history," quoting Gen. Douglas MacArthur. "Private First Class Thomas Lowell Tucker's heroism is our legacy that we will never let go."
The Oregon governor's office lists Tucker as the 63rd soldier from Oregon or with strong Oregon ties to die in Iraq.
NEW YORK (AP) - Jaap Penraat, an architect and industrial designer who helped 406 Jews sneak out of Nazi-occupied Netherlands and withstood torture to protect fellow members of the resistance, has died. He was 88. Penraat died June 25 at his home in Catskill, N.Y., of esophageal cancer, said his daughter, Noelle Penraat.
Penraat was in his 20s when he began forging identity cards for Jews. He was arrested, imprisoned for several months and tortured, but refused to tell his captors anything. After his release from prison, Penraat and other resistance members disguised Jews as construction workers hired to work on the defensive wall that Nazi forces were building along France's Atlantic Coast. He made 20 trips accompanying groups of refugees to Lille, France, where the Jews were met by the French underground and sent on to neutral Spain.
Speaking about his wartime experiences years later, Penraat said he had simply done what seemed necessary. "You do these things because in your mind there is no other way of doing it," he told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2000.
Of the 140,000 Jews who lived in the Netherlands before the Nazis invaded, only about 30,000 survived. Poland was the only nation that lost a larger percentage of its Jewish population.
After the war, Penraat became a noted designer in Amsterdam, then moved to the United States in 1958. He is survived by three daughters, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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Well done, good and faithful servant.
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secured a path to heaven
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Oregon State Police said Marine in full dress uniform stopped at serious-injury Hwy. 97 crash, rendered first aid after memorial service for Pfc. Thomas Tucker. You just got to know that police, fireman, EMS, State Troopers were at the furneral. They so support our troops. So good that Marine was there.
Two people were seriously injured in a three-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon on Highway 97 south of Madras, Oregon State Police said. Troopers offered special thanks to a U.S. Marine who stopped to provide first aid as he returned from the Redmond memorial service for Army Pfc. Thomas Tucker.
The crash occurred around 3:45 p.m., at Highway 97 and Jericho Road, about 15 miles south of Madras. The collision shut Highway 97 for about 70 minutes, at a time when a procession of up to 300 vehicles was heading north from Redmond to Tucker's funeral at a Madras cemetery.
A 1991 Ford Escort four-door station wagon driven by Michael Conklin of Madras was trying to cross the highway eastbound on Jericho Road, according to OSP Sr. Trooper Terry Miller. As it drove between two stopped southbound vehicles to cross the northbound lane, it was struck in the passenger side by a northbound 2002 Honda Accord two-door driven by Steve A. Santos, 36, of southeast Portland, Miller said.
After that impact, the Escort struck a stopped southbound 2005 Subaru Outback station wagon, the trooper said.
Conklin, seriously injured, reportedly was taken by ambulance to Mountain View Hospital in Madras, Miller said. A male passenger, whom troopers had not identified, also was seriously injured and was flown by Air Life helicopter to St. Charles Medical Center-Bend.
Trooper Miller said a Marine traveling in the area, identified as Kevin Houser (with no age or hometown provided) stopped and was instrumental in providing first aid until medical personnel could arrive.
Santos and his passenger, Peter J. Citrano of Anchorage, Alaska, were not hurt. The Escort and Accord were totaled in the crash, while the Subaru received minor damage. The Subaru's two occupants, Richard and Mary Bradley of Gresham, were not taken to the hospital, but Mary Bradley reportedly suffered minor injuries, Miller said.
Conklin reportedly was driving with a suspended license, Miller said, but no enforcement action had been taken at the time of the OSP press release.
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I remember an Army Reserve unit that had been on light infantry maneuvers in the desert and were returning in civilian vehicles when they happened on a serious auto accident. Then rendered first aid to several seriously injured people then left when the emergency vehicles finally arrived.
Back in town, covered in filth and camouflage paint, they were pulled over by a policeman, who basically was wondering why, in addition, they were also covered in blood.
After a brief explanation, he remarked that "You guys train a lot harder than we used to."
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Full dress uniforms are expensive. Especially if this Marine is junior enlisted, blood, oil etc. ruining the uniform would mean a significant monetay sacrifice. Made quietly and quickly when needed.
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I sent an email to author of this article. He has already contacted a couple of vets in his area to see what they can find out about this fellow, and to give him a pat on the back. He has promised to stay in touch, since I told him, being in Austin, TX, I didn't always watch or read their station!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
WESTFIELD, Mass. Police in this western Massachusetts town say they have seized a digital camera with images of celebrity couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Africa for an investigation by Los Angeles authorities. Local police, accompanied by state police and Secret Service officers, went to the Westfield home of William Keys on Tuesday to recover a digital camera's memory stick after three photos that appeared on the Internet were tracked to Keys, police said Friday. Officers then went to Precision Camera and Video Repair in Enfield, Conn., where Keys works, and recovered the camera. It remains in custody of Westfield police. 
Since the Vietnam war, liberalism has shifted leftward, particularly on the use of force and on the social issues that emerged in the 1970s. Today, we are confronted by another totalitarian foe, in the form of radical jihadism, and there is a need for progressive leadership that can forcefully defend America and our values.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine shut down the state government Saturday after a deadline to adopt a new balanced budget expired, bringing road construction projects to a halt and furloughing tens of thousands of state employees indefinitely. State parks, beaches and historic sites were expected to close Wednesday _ the day after the July Fourth holiday. It was a grim climax to a bitter dispute with Corzine's fellow Democrats in the Assembly over his plan to increase the sales tax. "It gives me no joy, no satisfaction, no sense of empowerment to do what I'm forced to do here," Corzine said.
Two people, including a notary public, have been charged in connection with a suspected phony document scam in Fredericksburg. Claudia Maria Zuluga-Agudelo, 38, of Richmond was indicted on 18 charges this week by a Fredericksburg grand jury. The charges include conspiracy, forgery, impersonating a notary, selling fake licenses and obtaining money by false pretenses. Lizzette Hagen, 42, of Ashland, a notary public, is charged with three conspiracy charges, according to documents filed in Fredericksburg Circuit Court. She was also indicted this week. 
more from the way he lived than from the horrific way he had to die."
