5 Things You Didn't Know About "The Pacific"

 Based largely on Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed and Robert Leckie's Helmet for My Pillow, HBO's The Pacific is the highly anticipated 10-part World War II miniseries that follows the U.S. Marines through some of the most hellacious battles in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, The Pacific is in some ways a companion piece to one of the most celebrated miniseries of all time, HBO's Band of Brothers (also produced by Hanks and Spielberg). ...

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Church abuse scandal reaches pope's brother

Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself. While there has been no suggestion of wrongdoing by Benedict, the launch of an inquiry by German Catholic officials after his brother admitted he slapped children years ago is stirring Vatican fears of a major crisis for the papacy. Benedict, 82, was archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982 when he was brought to the Vatican to head the body responsible for...

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Burglar uses church equipment to view porn

Second-degree burglary charges have been filed against an Ames man who broke into a church where he allegedly used the institution's electronic equipment to watch pornography. Police allege the 55-year-old man broke into the First Christian Church on Thursday. After gathering items from around the building, he is believed to have gone to the basement to spend the night. Police summoned to the church Friday by staff, found the man trying to haul away a garbage can filled with food, kitchen...

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BPO Recruit Faster

Private and public stakeholders of the Philippine business process outsourcing (BPO) industry recently launched a national standardized test for applicants, allowing firms to recruit faster and jobseekers easy access to open positions. The test — called the BPAP [Business Processing Association of the Philippines] National Competency Test (BNCT) — remains voluntary, at least for now, said the BPAP, the private sector-led umbrella organization of BPO and IT-enabled services companies in the...

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Loop Holes on Internet Explorer

Microsoft on Tuesday warned that hackers are targeting a freshly-uncovered weakness in some earlier versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser software. Microsoft said it is investigating a hole that cyber attackers are taking advantage of in IE 6 and IE 7. "At this time, we are aware of targeted attacks attempting to use this vulnerability," Microsoft said in an advisory posted along with a routine release of patches for Windows and Office software. "We will continue to monitor the...

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PNP Dir. Gen. won't Support New AFP Chief if...

Philippine National Police Director General Jesus Verzosa will not back the newly designated military chief, Lt. Gen. Delfin Bangit, should he attempt to install President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as holdover president in the event of a failure of the May 10 election. “According to the Constitution, we must have a new president after June 30,” Verzosa told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Tuesday. The PNP chief also vowed to thwart unlawful attempts to undermine the electoral process in May...

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City Public School in U.S. Closed Due to Online Threat

A vague threat apparently posted by an Australian on two social networking sites led to the lockdown on Wednesday of all schools in the busy Midwestern US city of Minneapolis, officials said. City officials received a phone call early Wednesday alerting them that a young man planned to "shoot up" an unspecified school and then kill himself, police said. Officials decided to place all schools on a "code yellow" lockdown as a precautionary measure while investigating the validity of the threat. The...

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Slow Printing of Ballot causes Alarm

 Yet another glitch in the May 10 automated elections looms. The National Printing Office (NPO) is unlikely to produce the required 50 million ballots for the elections and may have to acquire more machines to do the job, or print 15 million ballots for manual polling for the shortfall, officials said Wednesday. In an urgent memorandum dated March 1 to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) project management office, Esmeralda Amora-Ladra, head of the poll body’s printing committee, said...

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Richest Man Today!

Carlos Slim Helu takes No. 1 spot on Forbes World's Billionaires list as a record 164 10-figure titans return to the ranking amid the global economic recovery. For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man. Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil (AMX), Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010...

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Bryant's Late Heriocs, Snaps 3 Game Losing Streak

 Kobe Bryant never gets tired of being the Lakers’ closer. And though he savored the chance to stop Los Angeles’ longest losing streak in nearly three years with yet another flawless game-winning shot, Bryant is hoping he won’t have to bail out the Lakers quite so frequently in the final weeks before they defend their title. Bryant hit a 17-foot jumper with 1.9 seconds left, and the Lakers rallied in the fourth quarter to snap their three-game losing streak with a 109-107 victory over the...

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