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Chris
Too late for this week, I think, however...
Cancer research methods are, in the US, changing dramatically. And not before time.
See "su2c", the charity founded a month or so ago and which received an unprecedented 1hr simultaneous evening broadcast across three major cable networks.
The need for dramatic research method change and explanation is given not only on the su2c site by their head of research - who also developed Herceptin - but also in "Time" magazine the 06 October 2008 issue, pages 44-49, particularly page 47.
This is very important stuff for all of us and will likely revolutionalise treatments and life expectancy in a few short years.
UK coverage, from what I've seen has been minimal...
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Probably not newsworthy, but this struck me as an amusing bit of crowd-sourcing:
http://www.starstryder.com/2008/10/03/citizen-plumbing-its-not-quite-galaxy-zoo/
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The BBC heath report have just upped the ante on Obesity. It says a US expert thinks 3/4 of the population is obese.
Now next time you go out try spotting them. That is 3 out of every 4 people being obese. Is it any worse than when you were young? I remember more Obese people then than now.
Next time you are on a bus at 4.00pm count the obese children. 1 or 2 maybe.
What about your fellow workers. Where are 3/4 of the population hiding? Yes, there is a problem with young single mothers, and I noticed white van drivers have a size issue, but not 3/4 of even those groups are obese.
Are we being lied to just like the banks have been doing, inflating their assets?
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Try "health report has"
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Newsworthy? If so, is it:
Good News, Bad News, or both..?
Complicated by Amazon's involvement I should think. Decisions, decisions.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/how-pirates-hijacked-ds-954403.html
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Mmmmm... prepared to run a "Book" on this Chris?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7661311.stm
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I was intrigued to read this US military news release:
``Cryptologic Technician Third Class Petty Officer Matthew J. O'Bryant
... died September 20 in the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad,
Pakistan. O'Bryant was assigned to the Navy Information Operations
Command Maryland''
from
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12233
Why was a cipher operator staying at the civvie Marriott? This becomes even
more interesting when one realises that the NIOC has close links to
the NSA and many service personnel have been commemorated on the
Memorial Wall:
https://www.nsa.gov/memorial/memor00005.cfm
Just what WAS going on at the Marriott and WHY was it, out of all the hotels in Islamabad, attacked?
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The problem with the Government is that in the name of national security and the fight against terrorism, ethnic minority groups civil liberties are being eroded. The mad idea of Jacqui Smith's to create a national database is a dangerous tool because if it is allowed to be implemented, the government may use retrospective conversations such as two people talking in 2001 saying "I dropped a bomb" in the context of 'I dropped a clanger'as the basis of suspecting an innocent victim. Then you have the dangerous Cressida Dick stating - another Juan Charles de Menes (sorry if I spelt the name wrong)situation could arise and another innocent victim be killed! This government in it's 10 years has allowed the terrorist threat to grow through lack of competent policies or vigilance or security systems and all headed by the same Jacqui Smith - I refer to the unvetted immigration workers who were not given immigration checks or clearance, the loss of personal data, the detention without charge, denying innocent victims access to legal representation, the list goes on. Furthermore, having the racist police (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/feb/25/police.law)listening in to your conversations can prejudice other aspects of your life covering legal or insurance claims. These calls are supposed to be confidential but with the racist police listening, this is an abuse of process and infringes an individuals right to goods and services that fall outside of the national security proviso. Therefore, the next time you put in for legal aid or an insurance claim and you are given a refusal, make sure that the grounds for refusal are valid and not prejudicial to your rights to goods and services.
Furthermore, the government claims it needs to know everything but the same disclosure is not extended to an innocent victim who may not have been charged but who has been the victim of coverty surveillance due to a voluntary disclosure of lost personal data and the potential of id theft. This means that a victims rights of privacy are breached and the victim cannot do anything about it because the information commissioner deems that a public authority can evade disclosure by stating 'we neither deny or confirm any such data is held'.
The government has gotten it hopelessly wrong and continue to make a cockup as they go along, but Civil liberties should not be eroded to help an incompetent government or other just as incompetent agencies. To fight terrorism, tackle it from root level, ie. use educated scholars of any nationality to put the message across - fundamentalism and terrorism are not religious faiths and anyone claiming they are should go and worship in a country where such fundamentalism and terrorism is accepted.
VM
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EMA
EMA are saying on their advice line that there are delays of five weeks for processing claims. In fact it has taken them over fifteen weeks to process my daughter's application.
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