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| John Smeaton’s Boot’n’Banjo Anti-terrorism Tactics |
| 2007-07-08 09:47:00 |
Independent.Co.UK The Pride of Scotland: Have-a-go hero Smeaton reveals his boot'n'banjoanti-terrorism tactics "This is Glasgow. We'll just set aboot ye." It might lack the rhetorical flourish of one of Osama bin Laden's notorious videos, but the words of baggage handler John Smeaton, one of several have-a-go-heroes who helped police subdue the two would-be suicide bombers at Glasgow airport on Saturday.He explained what he did, thus: "I seen a man get out of the passenger side of the vehicle. The man attacked a policeman. I thought, that's not right. I ran over to assist. Other members of the public did the same."I got a kick in. Other passengers were getting kicks in. The flames were ...
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| Two UK terror bombers enquired into US jobs |
| 2007-07-06 20:53:00 |
Customwire.AP.orgLONDON (AP)Two suspects in the failed car bombings in Britain made inquiries about working in the United States, the FBI said Friday. Mohammed Asha and another suspect had contacted the Philadelphia-based Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, as first reported in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Asha, a Jordanian physician of Palestinian heritage, contacted the agency within the last year, but apparently did not take the test for foreign medical school graduates.I wonder which US questions were so off-putting to a terroristthat were not contained in NHS vetting.1) Are you a total moron? Yes2) Can you pull the wool over Pat Hewitt’s eyes? Yes.3) Go to the UK, no questions, and no barriers.This has happened during the NHS "Best Y...
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| A Day in the Life of a Cell |
| 2007-07-06 01:03:00 |
Organelles collect and deliver, leaving their footprintsthrough the molecular gel. A ribosome formulatesproteins while floating in the bisque, and bindsitself to the membrane of a nucleus.Mitochondria dynamos clone themselvesby binary fission, elongating and splitting in two.Kinesins and dyneins walk along microtubules,waving their cargo overhead like helium balloons.Chloroplasts reap solar energy in chlorophyllcells that keep plants green and lush.~~Coral~~The first in a planned series of animations for Harvard University's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, "The Inner Life of the Cell" takes undergrads beyond textbooks and vividly illustrates the mechanisms that allow a white blood cell to sense its surroundings and respond to an external stimul...
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| 8000 (NHS) DOCTORS WITHOUT JOBS |
| 2007-07-05 17:16:00 |
Daily_Telegraph_3.3.07£2 billion has been spent on the training of up to 8,000 doctors who find themselves without a new job under a Government initiative.It costs £250,000 to train a doctor and the "shambles" is said to be blighting the careers of dedicated young men and women who may now leave the NHS. Many are also saddled with debts of more than £40,000 after funding their training.BBC_News_4.7.07Terror Checks Pledge on NHS staffAn immediate review of NHS recruitment will be carried out following the attempted bomb attacks in London and Glasgow, Gordon Brown says.WHO YA GONNA CALL ?? THE SMEATONATORComments: Joe Grant, General Secretary, Scottish Police Federation Says: July 3rd, 2007 at 7:32 pm "I want to publicly acknowledge the heroic effort tha...
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| Abandoned Gorilla in Intensive Care |
| 2007-07-03 17:58:00 |
Daily_MailDoctors are fighting for the life of a baby gorilla in intensive care at a children's clinic in Muenster, Germany. Gorillas have a 98 per cent resemblance to humans.The gorilla, who was in acute danger because of hypothermia and lack of sugar, was wrapped in nappies and doctors attached a drip to inject milk and life-saving medicaments....
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| Soldier Blown Up in Iraq – Contracted MRSA twice from NHS |
| 2007-06-28 13:21:00 |
Sunday_Mirror_FindArticlesSunday Mirror, 4 Mar, 2007 by Nick OwensTHE youngest British soldier wounded in Iraq caught the deadly superbug MRSA, TWICE after he was treated on a "filthy" NHS ward in Britain. Private Jamie Cooper, 18, was almost killed when shrapnel from a mortar round ripped through his stomach at his base in Basra. After being airlifted to safety he was treated in a mixed civilian ward at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham - and after a month was struck down by the killer infection....
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| DEATHS (UK) FROM MRSA and GAS |
| 2007-06-24 03:17:00 |
Statistics.gov.ukDEATHS INVOLVING MRSA and CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE continue to rise -Health Statistics Quarterly Spring 2007The number of death certificates in England and Wales that mentioned Staphylococcus aureus infection increased each year from 2001 to 2005 – from 1,211 to 2,083, according to new data published by the Office for National Statistics. The percentage of these deaths where staphylococcus aureas was specified as methicillin resistant (MRSA) rose from 61 per cent in 2001 to 78 per cent in 2005.The mortality rate from MRSA and closely related infections is now double the mortality rate of cervical cancer in the UKMedicalNewsToday.comStaphylococcus Aureus HidesOut In CellsMedicalNewsToday"A major cause of human and animal infections, Staphylococcus aureus bacteria may evade t...
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| Hacker breaks into Pentagon e-mails |
| 2007-06-23 15:31:00 |
AustralianIT_hackersmh.com.au_PentagonA hacker has broken into one of the Pentagon's e-mail systems leading to 1500 accounts being taken offline.The e-mail system concerned did not contain any classified information and few details were forthcoming about the nature of the attack. Also, officials would not say whether they were able to actually read any e-mails sent on the system.US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said that a "variety of precautionary measures" were being taken.The Pentagon claims to have hundreds of attacks on its computer systems every day and attacks can come from a variety of sources including, as a spokesperson put it: "recreational hackers, self-styled cyber-vigilantes, various groups with nationalistic and ideological agendas, trans...
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| Sir Roy Meadow, Sally Clark and Angela Cannings |
| 2007-06-21 16:34:00 |
One tabloid has described Roy Meadow as"The child-snatcher-in-chief""In retrospect, the signs were there - that Roy would go too far," said Gillian Paterson, Sir Roy’s former wife, and the mother of his two adult children.“He found it everywhere. He was over the top. He saw mothers with Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy wherever he looked.”"I wish that somebody could have said to him: ‘Roy, they’re not everywhere. They do exist, but they’re rare’. I wish somebody could have stopped him."“I can’t go into details, but I’m sure he has a serious problem with women."Angela Cannings said the prison system had destroyed her family bonds and they had found it impossible to rebuild. The severance of the Cannings family on the say-so of one misguided expert witness meant that Jade...
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| Sally Clark and Angela Cannings |
| 2007-06-21 12:32:00 |
I received this message in my comments section today, but I feel it should be a top-post because it is a direct consequence of the malignant opinions of 'Professor' Roy Meadow.Angela Cannings has announced recently that she is to separate from her husband and daughter in order to make a fresh start in lifeTHIS IS JUST A SAMPLE OF TODAYS PRESS CUTTINGSI hope that Prof Meadow realises what a devastating effect his 'expertise' has had on innocent people's lives.Professor Meadow has a lot to answer for.Nothing can compensate the Cannings family for what they have been forced to endure. Angela and her husband have been to hell and back and are still paying the price. The toll on their relationship is too huge for any of us to imagine.I wonder how professor Meadow sleeps at night after all the h...
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| Generating Hype Waves and Computer Statistics |
| 2007-06-19 13:29:00 |
We are drowning in informationbut starved of knowledge – J. NaisbittInformation Fusion is about fusing information from different sources in order to facilitate our understanding of a complex system, thereby providing insights that could not be gained from any of the individual data sources in isolation.It would appear that the baying crowd needs a showdown between two major players and the players respond provocatively with ever increasing fervour, which is matched by an increasing traffic spike, but only whilst the players are feeding the frenzied onlookers. Observers click in regularly to check on progress, thereby adding to the overall numbers. If one player looks to be the overall winner and the other backs off, the traffic statistics reflect th...
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| FOUND - In Bulk |
| 2007-06-17 22:37:00 |
http://home.comcast.net/~freshlaundry/bush.html?bs=3wjbhsb%21boe%21dpoepnt...
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| SPAMMERS |
| 2007-06-17 13:11:00 |
To the spammer who hides behind a spoof IP address, and a spoof email address, who uses a Google blog platform, and finds it funny to continually spam my blog:This is an extract from your splurge:Here is a rather poor example, but it severs it's purpose,the funnelpage that leads to the Information Network.Try using a spell-checker1) Sever means ‘to cut off’2) Serve means ‘to supply’Learn how to use apostrophes. It’s means ‘it is’... ‘Its’ is a possessive pronoun. Learn how to use a hyphen. Learn how to punctuate and construct your phrases so that your sentences make grammatical sense.Contact me, but ONLY about the ptc ad industry-any other comments will be considered spam and treated as such.DO NOT threaten your reader that you will report him for spamming....
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| Fiji Military to Block access to Blogs |
| 2007-06-16 22:32:00 |
Fiji-Live.comReporters Without Borders has condemned the decision of military authorities in Fiji to block access to blogs "critical of the army and members of the government” on the pretext that they pose a "threat to national security." The French registered organisation said that it objected to the misuse of "national security" argument to step up control of the Internet. "This is an unprecedented step in Fiji. In a country where the press is regularly threatened by the authorities, the new policy of filtering the Net is worrying." About a fortnight ago, the military had said it was in talks with FINTEL to try and block access to the blogs such as resistfrankscoup. Last December’s coup brought Frank Bainimarama int...
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| Hard Day |
| 2007-06-13 23:24:00 |
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| Rebecca Riley, 4, Casualty of Psychiatric “Treatment” |
| 2007-06-03 21:45:00 |
ahrp.blogspotrebecca-rileyBoston_NewsThe Boston Globe reports on the drug-induced death of 4-year-old Rebecca Riley who had been “diagnosed” as suffering from both ADHD and Bipolar Disorder at the tender age of 28 months. She was prescribed three powerful psychotropic drugs whose toxic effects have never been shown to be safe or appropriate. Her two older siblings were likewise “diagnosed” and prescribed the same drug regimen by a licensed child psychiatrist at Tufts New England Medical Center.In the final months of Rebecca Riley's life, a school nurse said the little girl was so weak she was like a "floppy doll."The pre-school principal had to help Rebecca off the bus because she was shaking so badly.Should children so young be prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs meant for adul...
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| SALLY CLARK DIED of Natural Causes |
| 2007-05-30 17:56:00 |
This is a duplicate post outlining the claims made by the blogger Professor Hamblin that Sally Clark was guilty of killing her children so she committed suicide. The blogger purporting to be Professor Terry Hamblin has been spamming my blog. The imposter is an Internet Marketer.http://jkn.com/View?j=784939.998232583196Sally Clark, the mother who was imprisoned for 3 years for killing her two infant sons, but later released following a campaign to discredit the medical witness against her, has died under suspicious circumstances. News outlets are hinting at suicide and that she was known to have had an alcohol problem and to have been a depressive. So far response in the correspondence columns of the major newspapers has been that the ordeal of unjust ...
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| BMJ - FALSELY CONVICTED Sally Clark dies suddenly |
| 2007-05-30 17:22:00 |
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1832002THERE IS NO HIGHER AUTHORITY TO CONFIRM THAT A PERSON WAS WRONGLY CONVICTED.Professor Southall, consultant paediatrician at the North Staffordshire hospital in Stoke-on-Trent telephoned the police, having watched Mr. Clark give an interview on TV, to state that Mr. Clark, rather than Mrs Clark had deliberately suffocated his children. He later reinforced his claims, stating it was "beyond reasonable doubt" that Mr. Clark was a double murderer. Prof Southall recommended that the couple's surviving child, who was at the time being looked after by Mr Clark, be removed from his care. Due to his eminence and experience the local authority seriously considered this.Publications_Parliament_UKDr.Southall's involvement in Hospital Smo...
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| SALLY CLARK DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES |
| 2007-05-20 14:20:00 |
SALLY CLARK DIED OF NATURAL CAUSESThis is a duplicate post outlining the claims made by the blogger Professor Hamblin that Sally Clark was guilty of killing her children so she committed suicide. The blogger purporting to be Professor Terry Hamblin has been spamming my blog. The imposter is an Internet Marketer.http://jkn.com/View?j=784939.998232583196Sally Clark, the mother who was imprisoned for 3 years for killing her two infant sons, but later released following a campaign to discredit the medical witness against her, has died under suspicious circumstances. News outlets are hinting at suicide and that she was known to have had an alcohol problem and to have been a depressive. So far response in the correspondenc...
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| What Killed Sally Clark's Child? |
| 2007-05-18 22:50:00 |
http://tinyurl.com/2xqm28THE SPECTATOR.Co.UkWhat Killed Sally Clark’s Child?“Sally Clark spent three and a half years in jail wrongly convicted of murdering two of her babies after a jury was assured there was no other explanation for their sudden deaths than that she had deliberately smothered them. Yet five hours before her second child, Harry, was found lifeless in his baby chair, he had been injected with a combined vaccine with a long history of serious adverse reactions.”……“Harry Clark died in 1998, when the DTP vaccine also contained a controversial preservative, thiomersal, comprising 50 per cent mercury. Its use in childhood vaccines has recently been phased out in the UK, following concerns that ...
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| Orang-utan Survival |
| 2007-05-17 21:29:00 |
Former airhostess Lone Droscher-Nielsen has dedicated her life to saving orang-utans whose habitat is being razed by bulldozers. Without her Borneo Orang-utan Survival Foundation, it is unlikely that any of these babies would be alive today. Now they attend ‘jungle school’ so they can be returned to safe forests.Photo: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/05_01/Orangutan2_468x619.jpg...
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| Pope Benedict supports Evolution |
| 2007-05-14 19:13:00 |
Pope Refuses to Endorse ID"Pope Benedict's remarks were published this week in Germany in the book Schoepfung und Evolution (Creation and Evolution). He praised scientific progress and did not endorse creationist or "intelligent design" views about life's origins."Flaws in Intelligent DesignGuardian.co.uk“Dozens of schools are using creationist teaching materials (circulated by the Discovery Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA)which have been condemned by the government as "not appropriate to support the science curriculum".Guardian-Who are Truth In Science?Truth in Science is lying on its web site. It is trying to convince the public and educators that the issue it wants taught ...
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| Good Luck Tony Blair |
| 2007-05-10 17:02:00 |
Today is a sad day. I will write a poem in Tony's honour, soon.I haven't voted but, when I do, I shall vote for Gordon Ramsay...
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| SWALES - Water ditches |
| 2007-05-09 20:45:00 |
http://permaculturetokyo.blogspot.comhttp://tinyurl.com/2kv634Interesting stuff about swales here – the creation of water-harvesting ditches cut level into the ground on contour. Swales are not diversions ditches. Their job is not to carry water form one place to another. Water will continue to flow over land until it reaches the lowest point it can find. Creating swales is essentially creating low points for water to collect in. The swales catch rainwater running off the land, allowing it to soak into the land. Once in the ground, water is more protected from evaporation – a very serious problem in deserts – which reduces the problem of salinisation. ...
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| Give Me Danger |
| 2007-05-08 23:46:00 |
Beautifully DangerousGive Me DangerStart Wearing Purple...
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| Jason - Entrepreneur in Action |
| 2007-05-01 23:04:00 |
http://4e1www.calacanis.com/2007/04/27/new-calacanis-link-baiting-rules/http://www.calacanis.com/2007/04/27/new-calacanis-link-baiting-rules/OK – I just read the above post and listened to a podcast. It's a bit early to form an opinion, but I liked what I read and heard. Well, what the heck do I know anyway, but I think Jason might be right on most points. My only gripe is that he uses the word “entrepreneur” to describe his job.OK – Here’s where he and I clash. Jason says:"Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry: inappropriate or purely promotional comments may be removed."When/if you have the time to reply to my blog, you will notice that I don’t have any rules, as evidenced by the void in my sidebar – apart from Robina ...
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| Kindergartner Charged With Felony Tantrum |
| 2007-05-01 14:47:00 |
http://www.slate.com/id/2164004/Avon Park, Florida is a zero-tolerance kind of place.On March 28, Desre'e Watson, a 6-year-old kindergarten student at Avon Elementary School, had a bad morning. She cried. She wailed. She kicked. She scratched. She hit a teacher. That's what the police say, anyway.The police? That's right. To subdue the unruly kindergartner, school officials phoned Avon Park's police department ("committed to enhancing the 'Quality of Life' of the community"). When the cops arrived, young Desre'e attempted to resist arrest by crawling under a table. But Avon Park's finest pulled her out, cuffed her, put her in a police cruiser, drove her to the county jail, and charged this 50-pound menace with a felony and two misdemeanors....
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| WCW Poem Generator |
| 2007-04-22 15:45:00 |
WilliamCarlosWilliamsThis is just to sayI stamped upon the musselsthat were in the paddle poolwhich you were probablysaving for breakfast.Forgive me,they were propagatingso I filmed themand they probably died happy....
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| Otters holding Hands |
| 2007-04-09 21:30:00 |
Sea otters sleep at sea, floating around, holding hands as a means of keeping the group together on the ocean surface while floating above the kelp beds that otters feed in. They wrap themselves in the kelp plants to keep themselves stationary and the hand holding keeps bonded mates or family members together while drifting in the ocean swells and currents. It is an acquired behaviour stemming from the otters’ lifestyle at sea. It is also an affectionate stance in nature as it is a means of keeping close to those individuals that are most important to each otter. Otters feel more comfortable holding hands while asleep than drifting alone, so it serves both social and practical purposes....
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| Sally Clark's Death caused by Wrongful Incarceration |
| 2007-03-21 19:36:00 |
StockportExpress.co.ukExcerpt:"Doctor Steven Watkins stated in the British MedicalJournal in 2003 that Sally Clark had been convictedby a mathematical error.During her hearing, judges were told that vital medical evidence, which could have cleared her,was kept secret in her original trial and that testson her son Harry showed it was likely he actuallydied from a bacterial infection."It is now on record that the deliberately erroneous, arrogant opinions of Professor Terry Hamblin may have marred potential referrals to him, which could be considered to be unsafe and not in the public interest in the event of his being called upon as an expert in his field.The original Google captured page has been deleted, but the captured permanent copy can be found at...
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| Silver Moon |
| 2007-03-11 00:12:00 |
Silver MoonThe moon’s first kisswas a tentative nudgeas she circled the earth.Curious moon, she wept.A sonorous serenadefrom ripening midnight skiesswamps the latent earth.Sleepy moon, she sighs.Moon quivers, inhales the voidin a breath of wondermentas vibrant new life emerges.Harvest moon, she reaps.Eons pass through manytrials and tribulationsthe reeling rocks have wrought.Wise moon, she weeps.Tears enshroud the moon,helpless onlooker in the faceof drought and devastation.Spartan moon, she shivers.The moon inhales a cocktailof noxious clouds of progressfrom test tubes and engines of man.Hapless moon, she sobs.Outraged moon looks onas man wages war, killinglife in the ocean and forest.Anxious moon, she weeps.Inadequate mo...
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| Flying Pteri - By Coral |
| 2007-03-09 14:27:00 |
Please double click the radio - or single click beneath the radio.Flying Pteri#3(A)(...Flying PteriWe fly,we spy,we sigh,we dream,this stage,this night,this time,this year;each childwill rideeach spireeach cloudeach stareach beat;each manwill climbeach rungeach hopeeach waveeach tideand claimeach tearthat fallsand stakehis placeon high...
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| Net Neutrality |
| 2007-03-06 16:51:00 |
STOP the Internet Mafia before it self-destructs.GOOGLE - What do you really stand for?DUPLICITOUS is an apt description.It has a dental consonant, a labial plosive,a sibilant hiss, followed by another sibilant hiss.We will watch your actions, not your words.http://www.embraceinsanity.com/transcript1.html ...
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| Life is Precious |
| 2007-03-02 21:15:00 |
Life is a rainbowa fleeting whisperon the crestof a soap bubble...
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| Mathematical Reasoning |
| 2007-02-16 13:56:00 |
Mathematical ReasoningI should have paid more attention.I didn’t know there were so manydegrees of pain, angled projectionsembedded in non-Euclidean spacethat spiral into infinity, unleashingrippled petals from wrinkled bows,reassembling the balance of powerinto heart shaped constellations,fossilized in time, silent in space,setting mosaics of bones and sinews,casting canopies of cottons and cradles,all anchored to the earth by cruelty.~Coral~...
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| Product Tester |
| 2007-02-01 00:22:00 |
Product TesterI could have won 1000 Laptops but do nothave the requisite number of laps or fingers.I could learn the secrets of selling stuffon Ebay and buy the potions and gadgetsfor everlasting life, hermetically sealed,to excise my cellulite, to invigorate my cellsby electrical vibrations and clear my sinusesand arteries whilst I sleep. I could haveself-servicing, rechargeable pantiesand a year’s supply of fabric softenerif I had the right zip code and a fuzzylogic washer. I could have my cablesco-ordinated and solar fed to activateremote controlled drapes and blinds,light switches and windows in twoeasy steps and 10 years to pay.A training hunk could show me howto challenge and overcome the hungerby diarising every morsel consumed,and all my ambulan...
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