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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (435395)	11/17/2008 10:51:54 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577483

Silicon Valley shooter apprehended Techie goes postal By Sylvie Barak: Monday, 17 November 2008, 11:16 AM A LAID OFF engineer who shot and killed three people in his former workplace, SiPort, a fabless digital radio semiconductor startup in Santa Clara, has finally been apprehended. 47-year-old Jing Hua Wu was taken into custody by police in Mountain View yesterday morning, after shooting to death his former-firm’s CEO, Sid Agrawal, VP of Operations, Brian Pugh and head of human resources, Marilyn Lewis on Friday afternoon. Wu, a lead product test engineer at SiPort, had been laid off from the firm Friday morning, had left, but then returned around 3pm. According to Santa Clara Police Chief Steve Lodge, Wu had asked if he could meet with Agrawal, Pugh and Lewis to talk about his options for future employment. He apparently gave no indication of his mindset, before pulling out a 9mm handgun just before 4pm and shooting his three victims multiple times. After the killings, Wu escaped in his car, leading to a frantic police manhunt, which ended yesterday morning when the killer was thrown into Santa Clara County Jail charged with three counts of homicide. It is still unclear whether the murder weapon, which Police have yet to recover, was bought legally by Wu or not and whether Wu was even a US citizen.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (435395)	11/18/2008 12:02:32 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577483

I was in the East Coast over the weekend, so I couldn't tell personally. Suffice to say that these fires seemed to pop up near the end of the fire season, whenever that is. Actually, I meant physically...when they happen at other times when your home, do they bother you? When I first moved to S. CA, I didn't mind them but after a couple of years, the dryness would really get to me. Other people feel irritable.....I am not sure why. I've seen palm trees burst into flame from the dryness....spontaneously. And while they mostly happen in the fall, one time the Santa Anas started blowing in June and it caused the trees to wilt with some of their leaves turning yellow and dropping off. They really are a pretty powerful force.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (435395)	11/18/2008 10:17:36 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577483

Church sign: Obama election 'is sin against the Lord' rawstory.com Published: Monday November 17, 2008 CNN's Rick Sanchez reported on a church marquee that reads "America we have a Muslim president. This is a sin against the Lord." Mark Holick is pastor of The Spirit One Christian Center in Wichita, Kansas where the sign is being displayed. Holick told KSNW, "The main point of the marquee is to cause the Christians to understand he is not a Christian, Again, they will call me and they will tell me that he's not a Muslim because he is a Christian. That's not the point. The point is he's not a Christian." Sanchez talked to Wayne Slater who is the Sr. political writer for the Dallas Morning News. "It's absolutely not true. He was born in the United States. Barack Obama. He is not a Muslim. Yet, there are people who hold on to this and part of this, I think, is an intent to believe what people want to believe about their environment because their environment is changing," said Slater. This video is from CNN's Newsroom, broadcast Nov. 17, 2008.