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Post 101

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Not much new to post, haven't had the chance to do anything. But, next weekend should come with some pictures of some Folklorama pavillions.
In the meantime:

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Four members of a family have been arrested and
charged with murder for allegedly killing and eating a relative during a wedding
reception -- and serving his flesh to unwitting party guests, police have said.
At the July 17 wedding of his daughter, Eladio Baule got angry with his
cousin Benjie Ganay who tripped and accidentally touched the bride's bottom,
said Senior Police Inspector Perla Bacuel, at Narra town in Palawan province,
southwest of Manila.
A few hours later, Baule, his son Gerald, another cousin Junnie Buyot and a nephew, Sabtuari Pique, allegedly confronted Ganay, then drove him to a secluded place where they stabbed him to death, Bacuel said. Buyot, who surrendered to police and is acting as a witness, told police
they then roasted Ganay's body using coconut leaves and kerosene, Bacuel said.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- If you're going to the Olympics, you'd better be careful
what you say and do in public.
Software will be watching and listening.
Recent leaps in technology have paired highly sophisticated software with
street surveillance cameras to create digital security guards with
intelligence-gathering skills.
"It is a very vast network and it is the first time it is being done on such a scale at an international level," Greek police spokesman Col. Lefteris Ikonomou told The Associated Press.
It gathers images and audio from an electronic web of over 1,000 high-resolution
and infrared cameras, 12 patrol boats, 4,000 vehicles, nine helicopters, a
sensor-laden blimp and four mobile command centers.
Spoken words collected by the cameras with speech-recognition software are transcribed into text that is then searched for patterns along with other electronic communications
entering and leaving the area -- including e-mail and image files.

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