Friday, June 4, 2010

Joran van der Sloot, the suspect in the slaying of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman this week, left Santiago, Chile, aboard a military aircraft in the custody of officers Friday morning.
He will be flown to the border with Peru and expelled, said Macarena Lopez, a spokeswoman for Interpol.The Dutch citizen was previously a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, who was on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba. Van der Sloot was arrested twice in connection with the case but released both times. He denied any involvement and has not been charged. The suspect was captured Thursday in Chile, authorities said. He is the main suspect in this week's slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found Wednesday in a Lima, Peru, hotel room registered to van der Sloot. Chilean police told CNN that paperwork showed that van der Sloot entered Chile on Wednesday.

Joran van der Sloot flown out of Santiago, Chile, on way to Peru . Van der Sloot was previously a suspect in Alabama teen's disappearance. Was detained Thursday in Chile in connection with Peruvian woman's death
Also wanted on extortion charge in Alabama

Customer e-mails CEO; phone company issues warning, then an apologyBy Kristen Hamill, CNN

AT&T apologized to a customer Thursday after one of its agents left a message on a customer's voicemail warning him that he would receive a cease-and-desist letter after the customer e-mailed AT&T's CEO directly about some complaints.Please don't have one of your $12/hour 'Executive Relations' college students call me -- I've found them to be generally poorly informed (Engadget.com readers know more than they do about AT&T) and they have little authority to do anything sensible," reads a portion of Galante's e-mail to Stephenson. He posted this e-mail, along with the offending voicemail, on his blog, "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," which he began Wednesday after receiving the message. "After I sent the e-mail out [last week], on Wednesday I got that nasty gram back in the form of a voicemail," Galante told CNN.
The message, left by an employee at the company's Executive Response Team, warns Galante that if he continues to e-mail the CEO, "a cease-and-desist letter may be sent to you."AT&T told CNN on Thursday in a statement about the incident, "We are apologizing to our customer. We're working with him today to address his questions and concerns. This is not the way we want to treat customers. From Facebook to significant customer service channels, AT&T strives to provide our customers with easy ways to have their questions addressed."Galante said he wasn't necessarily expecting a response from Stephenson, but he felt that he was at least providing customer feedback to the CEO. He said that he accepted AT&T's apology but wondered why Stephenson was so "out of touch" and wished he had received a phone call directly from the CEO.

I believe that this is uncalled for that a employee of such a company would act this way. This man should be fired from his job for not representing not only himself in the right way but the company. The customers of AT and T have the right to be treated equally and treated how they should be.

109 die in fire in Bangladesh


At least 109 people were killed in a fire in the capital city in Bangladesh, the country's national news agency reported Friday. The blaze was caused by an explosion of an electric transformer in Dhaka Thursday, fire officials told the news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. The blaze then engulfed a plastic factory and four nearby buildings, the agency reported. Flames jumped some 300 feet in the sky as firefighters struggled to control it. Along with the dead, about 50 people were critically injured. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she was shocked at the tremendous loss of life and pledged to support the families of the victims.
This is horrible news, it is never good to hear of people dying especial in such places where the utilities to put out the fire and have no way of getting help. It is good that the prime minister stepped up and helped out these people in times of need.


McDonald's recalls 12 million Shrek glasses


McDonalds has just announced that they will be recalling 12 million shrek drinking glasses due to them containing cadmium. These are chemicals that may cause health care and to be safethey recalled all of them. Each glass is 16 ounces and is valued at two dollars a piece and were used to adverstise the Shrek Forever After 3D. While no injuries were reported and the cadmium level in the glasses is low, long-term exposure to the metal can cause adverse health effects. Cadmium, which at high levels is a carcinogen, can cause kidney and bone damage.
A CPSC spokesman said the agency is working to establish a "highly protective" level of cadmium. These glass products were slightly above that level, he said, even though the agency has not yet established an acceptable cadmium standard.


This is probably smart beacuse a glass is not worth getting sick over. Hopefully this will set an example for other companies who have harmful products that it is ok for them to recall thier items and it will not effect thier sales.

Rigs taking drilling, jobs abroad in wake of moratorium


Of the 33 oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico that have been slapped with a six-month moratorium, at least two are already on track to move abroad, an official in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, told CNN. Now that these companies have been penalized it leaves the door open for other drilling companys to step in and try and solve the problem. The oil companies will be making lots of money and will boost our economy.


I think that this is very good we need new input on this situation and new ideas to fix this problem beacuse as long as we keep doing what were doing it will kill of alot of wildlife in the Gulf and will harm the environment.