Marie-claire Mballa received 21 months for a so-called white paper scheme. It seems she would tell people that she could turn white paper into money. The "victims" gave her c$24k and c$29k both looking to help her after meeting in a bar where she said she worked for the UN. They willing participated in this conterfeiting process expecting to double their money in a few hours. To no ones surprise this was a hoax and they ended up with nothing but wet paper. Had law enforcement pitched thhttp://my.telegraph.co.uk/aid4families/may...

As expected, the Portland Tribune announced to its readers this morning that it's cutting jobs and going from a twice-a-week publication schedule to a weekly. The letter to its readers, from Portland Tribune president Steve Clark, tries to put a pretty bow on the move by spinning it as a move to "a more complete daily online newspaper that will be accompanied by a single weekly print edition to be published each Thursday." It's a strange, sad letter — a combo plate of defensiveness and buzzwohttp://kevinallman.typepad.com/kevin_allma...

Drug resistant tuberculosis is posing a growing threat in the UK, probably fuelled by immigration, say experts. A Health Protection Agency team examined 28,620 TB infections in England, Wales and Northern Ireland between 1998 and 2005.http://linkfilter.net/?id=137686...

Kenko has released a new digital photo frame, the Kenko KDF-07, that comes jam packed with a 7inch TFT flat panel display(480 x 234 pixels), Side mounted control panel and USB connectivity. Measuring 220mm × 155mm × 40mm and weighing 466 grams, the frame is compatible with SD, MMC, Memory Stick and CF memory card formats and sports JPEG, MP3, MPEG-1/2/4, AVI file formats. The Kenko KDF-07 is available in black, silver and grain colors and is priced at $160. [Product Page]http://www.techfresh.net/gadgets/hdtv/lcd/...