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This is a shot of my son, taken in Brittany last summer. We caught the ferry across from Southampton and stayed just a few miles outside Rennes. Unsurprisingly for France the food was delicious even though we had to cook most of it ourselves as the gite we were staying in didn't come with a built in chef. Having our own car to get around was more than handy as it allowed us to bring a fair few home comforts with us, including jnr here. Oh yes and there was lots and lots of sunshine.
View from the George III, Dolgellau, Wales
View from the George III, Dolgellau, Wales, originally uploaded by bongo vongo.
During a short break in Mid-Wales we stopped at the George III hotel restaurant just a couple of miles down the road from Dolgellau. Had a well prepared Moules Marinieres at the restaurant and the service was friendly. Best of all was the view of the setting sun from the balcony where many people seemed to be enjoying a drink while looking over the lake.
And why not.
Disruptive Biology
My life changed the day my son was born. I imagine fathers throughout the history of mankind have said much the same thing. But nearly 11 months ago I was the one saying it.
Actually, I'd begun changing before he was born as about this time last year, with a focus and determination never before experienced by yours truly, I looked for and found a new more secure job. I took up this position about a couple of weeks after jnr was born.
But how has jnr changed my life? In the usual ways for a start after all I am writing this post at 6 in the morning on a Saturday and count myself lucky that I had nearly 5 hours sleep last night. Yesterday I was thinking it remarkable that I, a self confessed telly addict, am happy that with the advent of jnr my viewing habits have changed so that I'll now watch in a week about as much as I sometimes did in a day. That's definately a change for the better although it means that I no longer know anything about the lives of the desperate celebrities and wannabies occupying airtime singing, dancing and otherwise surviving their way through the schedules. No real loss I think.
I have, however, felt the loss of my old frankenstein pc, which sadly whirred slowly into life for the last time during the great clear out that preceded jnr's arrival. The loss has been mitigated mostly by my iPhone which is also responsible for my conversion to Apple offerings as the sheer convenience of the OS on their products more than makes up for the nauseating fanboy hagiography that accompanied Steve Jobs passing. The iPhone is also a great hit with the lad as he's taken to it like a cat to catnip. So much so that he doesn't understand why he can't get a tv to change content simply by swiping the screen. His favourite things on the iPhone are the Muppet Show clip featuring Animal and those weird pink cow-like things singing the Manamana song, a delightful little app called Peek-a-boo and the classical Spanish guitar track by John Williams called Asturias. This last favourite of his makes me feel particularly proud and I hope he inherits my love of all things Spanish but not my complete inability to play a guitar after over 20 years of owning one.
This week marks the first time in over a year that jnr's mom and I have managed to go for a meal together, alone, at a restaurant thanks to 'Granma Mary' jnr's new childminder. Although we talked of nothing else other than the baby as we anxiously and somewhat guiltily munched our way through a couple of delicious 'Romano' pizzas.
The main thing I've realised about being a dad is probably cliche but that's because it can never be learned only experienced, that the hardships and sacrifices I necessarily made for my child is no less than was made for me by my own father when I was born. Indeed things were probably harder for him. It's, therefore, particularly gratifying to be told by several relatives at a family gathering earlier this week that jnr, who we've nicknamed Bubu, looks like his grandfather.
Perhaps I'm beginning to understand the poet's observation that the Child is Father to the Man.
Roasted Asparagus
Roasted Asparagus, originally uploaded by bongo vongo.
The farmer from Evesham, who grew and sold me the asparagus, suggested a cooking method. Boil them for 12 minutes and then serve simply with butter. I consulted the Internet and decided to roast my bunch instead. Olive oil, salt, pepper and chopped garlic cooked in the oven at 200 degrees Centigrade for about 12 minutes. Delicious even if I say so myself.
Asparagus, originally uploaded by bongo vongo.
Drove to Evesham yesterday. Saw a farm shop just outside the town. A sign said locally farmed asparagus was being sold inside. I bought a bunch. It's the season for asparagus. The Vale of Evesham grows the best.


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Matt Collis
As Director, International Policy, Matt works in collaboration with the global program leadership team to lead IFAW's engagement with international institutions, conventions and Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). These include the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), and the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA) and the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
Prior to this role, Matt Collis led IFAW's efforts to protect our planet's great whales from commercial whaling and the many other threats they face worldwide as Acting Whale Program Director.
With an education and work experience in politics, specializing in international relations and environmental issues, Matt joined IFAW in 2005. Matt spent six years in the London office, working across all of IFAW's campaigns and leading IFAW's relations with the UK government, before moving to Sydney in 2011. As Policy & Campaigns Manager in the IFAW Oceania office, Matt led campaigns focused on protecting the whales in the region and the wonderful and unique animals, such as koalas, wombats and kangaroos that call Australia home.
Matt was invited as an adviser onto the Australian government delegation to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and the International Whaling Commission (IWC) as well as attending these conventions as part of IFAW's delegation.
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Obama's inauguration shifted the gears of the Department of Justice. In Week 1, the administration announced plans to change positions on Guantanamo. In Week 2, Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter bill, helping plaintiffs suing for pay discrimination, which Bush had threatened to veto. Around the country, judges are asking what else will change and sometimes giving the government extra time to figure out what it wants to say in pending cases.
Which Bush legal positions should the new administration reject? With thousands of cases left over from the Bush era still pending, the question is a daunting one for the Obama team. But we've taken a first crack at it and made a list of the top 10 positions that really should go. (Your additional suggestions are welcome, in "The Fray" or via e-mail.)
Given that the Bush administration has been defending torture and preventive detention and trying to block our knowledge of its practices through a host of procedural maneuvers, we could have filled the entire list with national security cases. But we don't want to give the skewed sense that the legal problems created by Bush's Justice Department are only in that area. The overarching Bush effort that Obama's lawyers should reject is the pervasive, insistent attempt to keep people out of the courts. We picked cases that are vehicles for pushing back against that. The first three are before the Supreme Court:
1. Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli
Ali Al-Marri, a national of Qatar, is in an unlucky category of one: He was arrested while legally in the United States in 2001, and then the government dropped criminal charges against him a month before his trial, declared him an enemy combatant, and threw him into a military brig. Marri has been in isolation since 2003, held uncharged and untried. The 4th Circuit fractured over what the Bush administration had to show to keep Marri locked up. The government has argued that Congress'$2 2001 authorization of the use of military force permits indefinite domestic detention.
In December, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Marri's challenge to his detention; on March 23, we'll hear from the Obama DoJ. The Obama DoJ brief should embrace the courts' authority to review the grounds for holding Marri and acknowledge that Congress did not authorize domestic military internment.
2. AT&T v. Hulteen
In December, AT&T argued to the Supreme Court that the company's failure to credit Noreen Hulteen and three other female employees for pregnancy leaves they took two decades earlier when calculating their retirement benefits in the 1990s was not discrimination on the basis of gender or pregnancy. And even if there was an act of discrimination, AT&T continued, the women had run out of time to sue. In part, the company relied on the 2007 case of Lilly Ledbetter, who was told by the Supreme Court that she was too late to get to court in her pay discrimination case. (The majority read federal law to say that Ledbetter had 180 days to sue from when she was first paid less than men at her workplace for doing the same job, not when—years later—she discovered that she'd been shortchanged because she was a woman.)
At the Supreme Court, AT&T had the support of the Bush Justice Department (though not, tellingly, of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). One of the first acts of the new Congress, however, was to pass a bill, which Obama supported as a senator and ceremoniously signed as president, that reversed the Ledbetter ruling so that women like her could get their day in court. The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act gives Obama's DoJ a graceful entry to go back to the Supreme Court about Hulteen. The government should ask the justices to return the case to the 9th Circuit for reconsideration in light of the new Ledbetter statute and its flexibility about the timing for pay-discrimination lawsuits.
3.Denedo v. United States
Jacob Denedo, a specialist 2nd class in the Navy, was told by his lawyer that he should plead guilty in 1998 to a minor offense. What his lawyer did not tell him was that, as a "collateral consequence," he was at risk of being deported. (Born in Nigeria, he'd immigrated to the United States in 1984 and became a legal resident in 1990.) Several years later, when Denedo's deportation process began, his new lawyers asked the Court of Military Appeals for a hearing about whether his original lawyer had been constitutionally deficient because he had failed to tell his client that a guilty plea entailed the possibility of deportation.
After the Court of Military Appeals agreed and granted the hearing, the Bush administration stepped in and persuaded the Supreme Court to hear the case. To head off the hearing, the government has argued that, because life-tenured judges in the civilian federal courts could conceivably hear Denedo's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, the military courts could not. This case seems small, but it's another one that raises the important question of access—which the Court of Military Appeals got right. The new DoJ should ask the Supreme Court not to hear the case after all, so that a hearing into the facts surrounding Denedo's guilty plea can proceed in the place it should—the military courts.
4. United States v. Jawad and United States v. Khadr
Moving to the appeals courts, a stream of petitions has been brought by the Guantanamo detainees whom the Bush administration deemed enemy combatants. It's time for the administration to sort through the remaining 248 detainees. (More here from Dahlia Lithwick on that.) The president has halted the planned military commission trials at Guantanamo, and now the Obama lawyers should decide whom to charge. Most importantly, the new DoJ should stand up for the principle that the government can't detain people outside the fabric of constitutional law.
Mohammed Jawad was 16 or 17 when he was captured by the Afghan police in 2002 for allegedly throwing a grenade that severely injured American soldiers and an Afghan translator. While in Guantanamo, he says, he has been subjected to sleep deprivation and coerced into making a false confession. The former lead prosecutor in his case before the military tribunal now has switched sides and supports his appeal; he says that Jawad poses no current danger and should be sent home.
Omar Khadr is accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in 2002. The Canadian was 15 when he was taken into American custody. He says he was tortured and mistreated by the United States at Bagram Air Force Base and Guantanamo. Last summer, his lawyers released a video showing him crying and begging to be released. In November, a federal judge sent Khadr back to Bush's military commission system, which Obama halted at the beginning of his presidency. The Obama DoJ should either try Khadr in federal court or send him back to Canada.
5. Arar v. Ashcroft and Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan
We know what happened to Maher Arar because the Canadian government has thoroughly investigated his experience of extraordinary rendition. In 2002, agents of the United States, whom the Canadians did not stop, shipped off Arar to Syria, where he was tortured while being interrogated for a year for his suspected links to al-Qaida. The Canadian government cleared Arar in 2006, apologized, and awarded him $10 million. Condoleezza Rice's State Department admitted that it mishandled his case. Arar wants redress in U.S. courts, under American law, to hold U.S. officials responsible.
Unlike the Canadians, the Bush administration refused to apologize and settle. Instead, its DoJ argued that neither the Constitution nor any federal statute (including the Torture Victim Protection Act) protects Arar, and further that the inquiry he wanted would require revealing "state secrets." A three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit found additional reasons to cut off Arar from being heard in U.S. courts, but the full court, which heard argument in December, is reconsidering the case. Obama's DoJ should tell the court it need not rule, because the government is dropping the Bush position that Arar has no access to U.S. courts, and ask for time to reach a fair settlement with him.
In another case about extraordinary rendition and state secrets, five men who say the United States tortured them abroad are suing private contractor Jeppesen Dataplan for setting up the flights that took them to secret American prisons in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere. The Bush administration intervened in the case to shield itself and private contractors, and said that the subject matter of the suit is a state secret. The district court dismissed the case without independent inquiry into whether the information was really secret. The 9th Circuit hears arguments in this case today; the Obama DoJ should live up to the administration's commitment to transparency and drop the blanket state-secrets defense so that these men can present relevant evidence.
6. Rasul v. Myers, Ashcroft v. Iqbal, Padilla v. Rumsfeld,and Padilla v. Yoo
Several other cases also raise questions about how to redress the wrongs of torture and detention: In Rasul v. Myers, four British detainees held for two years at Guantanamo are suing for damages based on their allegations that they were tortured (beaten and shackled) and suffered religious discrimination (desecration of the Quran). Last year, the D.C. Circuit dismissed their claims by accepting the Bush administration's argument that the men could not sue under the Geneva Conventions, the U.S. Constitution, or a federal anti-discrimination law. (For that last one, the court had to rule that the detainees did not qualify as "persons" under the relevant statute.) The D.C. Circuit also said that even assuming the suit could proceed, the officials being sued had qualified immunity, meaning they shouldn't be held responsible because they couldn't have reasonably been expected to know that what they did was illegal.
We know that the new DoJ is under a great deal of pressure to protect government officials from liability. But that's not what its pronounced commitments to accountability and responsibility permit. In Ashcroft v. Iqbal, argued before the Supreme Court in December before Obama took office, Bush lawyers tried to stop another lawsuit dead in its tracks with the claim that high-level officials should not even have to answer complaints brought against them.
The new government should take the bold step of retracting that position and accepting the obligation of government to account for its actions. In all of these cases, Obama's lawyers don't have to abandon the defense of "qualified immunity." But the DoJ should stop using it as an absolute shield. The rule should be that the government accedes to hearings on whether, given the relevant facts, government officials can convince judges that what they did at the time was based on their reasonable "good faith" belief that their actions were constitutional. This would open up another question: Can government officials use the torture memos as alibis? That is exactly the question that lawyers and judges should face.
The torture memos loom large in Padilla v. Rumsfeld and Padilla v. Yoo, which are also about redressing the wrong of mistreatment and alleged torture and whether high-level officials are immune to suit. Jose Padilla, an American citizen arrested in the Chicago airport and thrown into a military brig on never-proven "dirty bomber" charges, sued the officials whom his lawyers think are responsible for his detention and the mistreatment he endured in prison. (The stories of his deterioration are deeply disturbing.) These suits request vindication, not money—asking only $1 in damages. The Obama administration should respond by admitting wrongdoing and apologizing as well as by releasing still-secret DoJ memos (which the next case on our list also seeks).
7. ACLU v. DoD
In 2003, the American Civil Liberties Union began filing lawsuits to enforce its requests, under the Freedom of Information Act, for the release of memos by the Office of Legal Counsel that gave a green light to the Bush administration's policies of detention, interrogation, surveillance, and extraordinary rendition. (The government even argued that it was protecting prisoners' privacy by refusing to release pictures.) The ACLU has won some of its battles, including a judgment in the 2nd Circuit in September of 2008 requiring it to produce some of the memos. Yet the ACLU says that "most of the key OLC memos are still being withheld." This chart from ProPublica tracks which OLC documents are being kept secret. The Obama administration should comply with FOIA by dropping Bush's broad claims of executive privilege, review all of the OLC documents to determine which, if any, need to remain classified—as Dawn Johnsen, Obama's choice to head the OLC, has argued—and make the rest public.
8. United States v. New York City Board of Education
In 1996, the Clinton Justice Department sued the New York City Board of Education over discriminatory recruitment for school custodian jobs. The New York schools had been relying for hiring on word of mouth among male custodians and leaving out women and minorities, the lawsuit alleged. In a 1999 settlement, the DoJ and the city schools agreed that 50 women and minority custodians who'd been doing their jobs provisionally would get permanent employment and retroactive seniority. Then a group of white male custodians who didn't like the settlement entered the case, arguing that they were victims of reverse discrimination. By then, President Bush was in office. His DoJ refused to defend the settlement agreement for all of the white women and some of the minorities, and instead used the case to attack affirmative action. That was a switch by the DoJ in the wrong direction.
The women and minority custodians succeeded in defending most of the settlement before a district court judge last year. Now that ruling is on appeal to the 2nd Circuit, and the DoJ should go back to the original Clinton stance. The Obama lawyers should reject the Bush position and return to defending the 1999 settlement as well as the principle of breaking down old patterns of job segregation in public employment.
9. In re Polar Bear Litigation
Moving to the district courts, environmental groups sued the Bush administration in 2005 to protect the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, because its habitat is disappearing as warming Arctic temperatures shrink the sea ice. Last May, a district court judge ruled that the Interior Department had to follow the ESA and make a decision about whether to protect the bear. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne gave in and listed the polar bear as threatened—at significant risk of becoming endangered by midcentury. But Kempthorne took a swipe at the ESA, calling it "perhaps the least flexible law Congress has ever enacted," and issued a rule providing that greenhouse gases could not be regulated in order to protect the bear. The administration also ruled out any limits on oil or gas exploration. "So this leaves everything as it was, in a way," Andrew Revkin wrote in the New York Times.
The Obama administration has already broken with the Bush administration by accepting a judge's order to regulate the mercury from power plants and issuing a promising memo about standards for the energy efficiency of appliances. It should also bump up the polar bear's listing from threatened to endangered and withdraw the rule that exempts greenhouse gases from regulation that would help protect the bear.
10. Thompson v. HUD
We close by highlighting the struggles of district Judge Marvin Garbis, who tried to rectify the Bush administration's violations of anti-discrimination law. In 2005, Garbis held that the Department of Housing and Urban Development violated the Fair Housing Act by unfairly concentrating African-American public-housing residents in the most impoverished, segregated areas of Baltimore. The judge faulted HUD for treating Baltimore as "an island reservation for use as a container for all of the poor of a contiguous region." Faced with the judge's ruling, the Bush administration argued that he had no authority to order a remedy and then did not address the severe segregation it has spawned—despite Judge Garbis' admonition that "it is high time that HUD live up to its statutory mandate."
The plaintiffs in this case are proposing an innovative plan that takes a regional approach to desegregation and helps public-housing residents move out of Baltimore to parts of Maryland with more job opportunities. The new government should stop stonewalling and start figuring out how to desegregate.
DoJ, we appreciate that there's a lot of work to do.


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Mariah Carey Shares Son Moroccan's New Bad Habit
Uh oh! Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have a troublemaker on their hands with their son Moroccan and his newest bad habit.
The famous singer appeared on the 'Late Show with David Letterman' to promote 'Me. I am Mariah,' the latest album in her successful, long-running discography.
She shared with the talk show host that her three-year-old son has earned himself the nickname Rocky, after Sylvester Stallone's boxer role in the 1976 movie. Apparently little Rocky won't stop hitting!
"Now he's punching kids, though, that's the problem," Mariah shared. "These kids are bigger than him, they're older than him, and he's knocking them out the box, and I'm like, 'Oh, no.'"
The former 'American Idol' judged buried her face in her hands and laughed as Letterman jokingly (we hope) added, "You're looking at litigation now, my friend."
Moroccan's adorable twin sister Monroe is keeping her fists to herself, but according to Mariah, she's a tiny diva.
"She way out-divas me," the mother of two insisted. "Like honestly, I have a picture of her in the womb like this and I'm not lying." She struck a model pose with one arm up, looking pretty natural in the position herself. Like mother, like daughter, right?
Hopefully Rocky will soon let go of his love for punches, but in our opinion, the nickname should stay. Rocky is too cute!


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Mr Timberlake thanks his wife in front of his ex
Mrs Timberlake did not join Justin Timberlake at the People's Choice Awards last night where he picked up three trophies. He did however take the time to thank her when he was on stage, calling her "beautiful" and then trying to make a joke about putting the dishes in the dishwasher. Such a comedian.
Umm…was he…is he… checking out Jessica Alba?
What was the best part of JT winning?
I have a new love for Ian Somerhalder.
Ian Somerhalder might be one of us!
Note his face when they cut away to him during Justin's speech. RIGHT?
And here's JT's full speech.
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Horse Power - New Mustang and Ford Products - September 2014
Latest Stang Parts
Strange Shocks
Always improving using the latest technology, Strange Engineering's new aluminum coilover shocks make suspension tuning easy. They feature a conveniently located adjuster knob at the bottom of the shock body. The knob allows you to quickly and easily adjust the valving to work in concert with track conditions. This new design is available in both single- and double-adjustable configurations, and they can also be customized to specific lengths, strokes, and valving by Strange Engineering to suit your specific needs. Strange's S1413 spanner wrench makes spring adjustments as quick and easy as shock adjustments.
Web www.strangeengineering.net
Phone 847/663-1701
Clean, Clean, Clean
Nothing is better than a clean Mustang, and Wizards Products is here to help with its new Detailing Cool kits. Packed full of everything you need to clean, shine, and protect your Mustang, including Shine Master Polish and Breathable Sealant, Mist-N-Shine Professional Detailer, Tire and Vinyl Shine, All Wheel & Tire Cleaner, Wizards Wash super concentrate, Wizards Multi-Fiber Cloth, and a Wizards hat and can koozie...all packed into a soft-sided cooler.
Web www.wizardsproducts.com
Phone 800/356-7223
If anyone wants to do a 3.5L EcoBoost swap into a Mustang, Performance Automatic can help make that happen with this new Street Smart Package. The 3.5L EcoBoost V-6 packs twin turbochargers, and 365hp factory, just imagine what it'll do with a tune and free-flowing exhaust. Performance Automatic has its 4R70W Super Streeter transmission with a custom bellhousing to mate it to the 3.5L EcoBoost engine, along with its Smart Shift transmission controller, wiring harness, torque converter, and all necessary components and hardware needed to make this swap a reality.
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If you're like us, and drive your Mustang every day, you spend a lot of time in it. Meguiar's wants you to enjoy that time by having a clean interior in which to hang. The company's new Ultimate Interior Detailer cleans and protects all interior surfaces, quickly and easily. The detailer not only cleans existing dirty interiors, but it also provides a grease-free, protective barrier to prevent against new stains and UV damage. The resulting clean finish is designed to last for weeks and weeks. The product is safe to use on all interior surfaces, including navigation system screens. To use, simply spray on and wipe off. Even a magazine editor can do that.
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Turbo Works
As Mustang and performance enthusiasts, we're in love with turbochargers, but sometimes we're not quite sure how to bring it all together. Stainless Works helps fill one piece of the puzzle with this new '79-'93 Fox Mustang small-block turbo header kit. Stainless Works' turbo headers feature a 3/8-inch-thick flange with 17/8-in primaries and 3-inch slip-fit collectors. The kit uses 3-inch V-band flanges and clamps are provided and welded on for the header-to-crossover connections. The kit is TIG-welded and back-purged for maximum performance. The kit includes the headers, a crossover tube, a turbo mounting bracket, aluminum motor plate, and a downpipe. No, the turbo isn't included, but nice try.
Web www.stainlessworks.net
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Finished Wheels
Mickey Thompson's Street Comp SC-5 wheel design is now available in a variety of finishes. The OG finish is gloss black with a machined lip, but up-and-comers include flat black as well as hypersilver with a machined lip. Mickey Thompson says the SC-5 is the perfect complement to the company's Street Comp UHP tire. It's available in 12 popular sizes, covering 17-, 18-, and 20-inch diameters. The SC-5 wheel design is the foundation for Mickey Thompson's Enhanced Stance System.
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One of the important ideas showcased in this year's Emerging Technology Center is additive manufacturing. 3D Systems, ExOne, Objet and Renishaw are all companies exhibiting in the ETC, located in Booth N-650. These companies offer varied technologies, but what their systems all have in common is making parts by adding material instead of cutting it away. That is, equipment from these companies builds complex 3D forms by precisely adding material in, layer upon layer. Metal or plastic components can be made this way. Compared to traditional methods, this approach to part making might seem strange, but manufacturers in the aerospace and medical industries, among others, are already making some components additively and moving other components toward additive production. In these applications, does additive technology take the place of CNC machining?
Sometimes, yes. But in the much larger share of cases where additive manufacturing succeeds, it does so by producing forms that cannot be made practically in any other way. The promise of additive manufacturing is found not in its potential to replace machining of any existing process, but in its potential to extend the capabilities of manufacturing.
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Earle Holland, Ohio State University's assistant vice president for Research Communications, says activists are increasingly targeting students pursuing degrees in fields known for relying on laboratory animals to conduct research.
"It is much bigger than ever before," Holland says. "The FBI has designated some animal rights groups and even some environmental activists as domestic terrorists. Given the rise in violence and property destruction over the past decade or so, it is much more serious than it was in the past."
Holland says that Ohio State is relatively fortunate, dealing with only a "handful" of serious threats of violence to university researchers in recent years. The national trend, on the other hand, concerns the university and the research community at large.
Major research institutions such as Ohio State rely on laboratory research animals for two key reasons: first, because the animals provide the best possible vehicle for conducting research in many fields of study.
"There are no alternatives to the use of animals, or we would adopt them quickly," Holland noted. "The alternatives or substitutes activists propose don't provide the same level of research certainty as animals raised for that purpose."
The second critical reason researchers utilize animals in their work is fairly straightforward: they're required to do so.
"You can't do biomedical research, or research in agriculture, or research in any number of areas without laboratory animals," Holland says. "That's a prerequisite of the National Institutes of Health or United States Department of Agriculture: If you're going to have advancements in these areas, they have to be tested on animals."
Holland, who is the university's "point man" for any area of research risk, remains concerned over one activist group's efforts to target students on research campuses.
Negotiation Is Over, a Florida-based activist group, claims discussion between citizens interested in animal welfare and professionals within research community is futile, and should stop in favor of what is known as "direct action."
"They are targeting incoming students in the sciences and related fields who, as a part of their course of study, will be dealing with animals," Holland explains. "These are young people, easily threatened, easily put in harm's way, and by threatening them, they could possibly change the students' mindset about their careers and perhaps move away from these fields."
The end result is radical activists picking on people who are not trained or otherwise experienced, and instead on people more vulnerable than professional researchers at institutions such as Ohio State, he says.
The research community has traditionally dealt poorly with these types of radical actions in the past, typically adopting a philosophical stance that included generally ignoring groups opposed to lab animal research.
"Quite frankly the scientific community has done a lousy job in the past of standing up and justifying its use of animals," he says. "They've listened to what our mothers used to say about bullies and turned around and walked away. As we learned as kids, if you ignore bullies, they just keep pummeling you, so to speak."
Organizations including Ohio State are increasingly turning away from that strategy, which Holland says had little chance of ever working. Rather, research institutions are attempting to handle activists more proactively, justifying the use of animals in research, and personally responding to concerned citizens.
"Ohio State has always taken the posture, even before the rest of the country, of aggressively countering these types of attacks, defending the fact that as a research university we follow all the federal, state and local guidelines to ensure the humane treatment of these animals, but that we are going to do research involving animals."


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How has nicotine re-wired your brain? Why is it as permanent as alcoholism? Why does it end up costing half of all South Carolina adult smokers an average of 15.3 years of life?
Sadly, the answer is horribly simple. Fear of success is motivating you to avoid bringing your most potent weapon to bear upon the problem - your vastly superior intelligence. It's normal to lose sight of the calm and quit mind you once enjoyed. It's normal to not be able to imagine never smoking (or chewing) nicotine again. It's normal for those whose brains become dependent upon nicotine to be willing to trade 1 chemical for 5,000 sunrises.
This is your invitation to learn that your fear was shared by every successful quitter, quitters who would not trade places with you for a lifetime's supply of free nicotine. This is your chance to overcome your fear, to become an educated dreamer, and to discover that although it may feel like it early on, no part of you will be left behind.
Expect your mind to build a shopping list of excuses as to why you should not attend. It's part of your dependency defenses. You may hear yourself saying "it's just too stressful right now, "the timing is bad," "I attended another program once and it's probably no different," "I'll attend a future program," or "if it's free it can't be worth much." Knowledge is power. We invite you to be brave, to turn on the lights.
Hosted by the College of Charleston's Counseling and Substance Abuse Services and open to the general public, this two-hour free seminar will be presented on Wednesday May 18, 2005, from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. in Arnold Hall.
Seminar Content: The onset of true chemical dependency is explored as nicotine imitated acetylcholine in exerting control over the flow of more than 200 neurochemicals, including select dopamine (reward), serotonin (mood) and adrenaline (stimulation) pathways. You'll discover how the brain defended against a flood of nicotine by growing millions of extra receptors and desensitizing critical brain pathways. You'll learn how to cope with and and diminish the anxieties that can occur during the re-sensitization process.
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Billy Sharp will be handed a free transfer by Saints.
The 28-year-old striker, who joined for £1.8m in January 2012 but has had a string of loan spells, will be allowed to leave St Mary's for nothing if he receives a suitable offer this summer.
Sharp has returned to Saints for pre-season training in good shape and good spirits, and has impressed new manager Ronald Koeman. However, the Dutchman doesn't feel that Sharp is going to figure in his plans for the new Premier League season.
As a recognition of his commitment to the club and his effort, Saints are prepared to waive any potential transfer fee to allow Sharp the chance to move on and further his career elsewhere if he gets an offer he wishes to pursue.
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Sharp's career stats show a striker who has scored 146 goals in 341 appearances while even at Saints, where chances have been limited, he has notched ten goals in 18 appearances.
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Graziano Pelle is likely to start the season leading the line with Sam Gallagher and Emmanuel Mayuka also in the squad.
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The Indians were, just as we are, a fun-loving people - practical jokers, great athletes, music lovers, and tellers of tall tales. They played handball and kickball, lacrosse, shuffleboard and quoits. They gambled. They raced - on foot, on horse. Just as we train for football, the trained - and dieted - for games.
Some games they played for fun. Some games were sacred; others helped avert disaster, the Indian believed, or healed the sick. Shinny, snow snake, ring-and-pin, hoop-and-pole, and cat's cradle were favorite Indian games. Juggling and archery were Indian pastimes. Youngsters teetered on stilts, spun tops, used beanshooters, and flew kites.
Pa-tol Stick Game
Some 130 tribes threw dice - not the ivory dice we know, but stick dice made of split cane, hard wood, and bone, or small dice tossed in a basket or bowl and made of beaver teeth, peach and plum stones, or nutshells. All the dice were marked for scoring purposes, not cheating.
For the Pueblo pa-tol stick or dice game, each Indian had three dice - hard sticks, 4½ inches long, 1 inch wide, and a ½ inch thick, marked as illustrated. They laid forty stones, each about the size of a fist, close together in a circle about 3 feet in diameter. They left a space (called a "river") between every tenth and eleventh stone. In the center of the circle they set a flat 6-inch diameter stone. Each player also had a stick marker - a "horse."
Once seated around the circle, the first player took three sticks tightly in his hand, then threw them hard so that the ends hit on the surface of the flat stone. (He let go of the stick about 6 inches above the flat stone.)
If two sticks fell with the plain sides showing and one with the three lines showing, he had ten points. Using a river as a starting point, he then moved his horse fifteen stones. When his horse landed in a river, he threw again. If it didn't, the next man threw the dice and moved his marker, starting from any river and going in any direction. First man to make it around the circle won. Many took part.
Sometimes "killing" was allowed. For example, if player A's horse landed on the same stone as player B's, player B had to start over. Sound like fun? Try it!
Moccasin Game
Singing and swaying to the beat of an Indian drum, excited Indians used to have great fun hunting for balls and beads, or bullets, as they called them, hidden under boxes, moccasins, or even cloth.
EQUIPMENT: Four bullets (you could use beads or marbles), three alike, one different; four moccasins or fur pieces (use pieces of cloth); twenty counting sticks or twigs.
Two teams of three sat on a blanket facing each other with the four moccasins between them. A knife was flipped. As it landed, the blade pointed out the starting player. With the bullets in his right hand, he skillfully worked his hands under the moccasins, leaving a bullet under each. A teammate played the drum to divert the opponent's attention. Next, the opponent flipped over moccasins with a stick attempting to find the odd-color bullet. The object was to flip the right moccasin on the third try, thus gain three counting sticks (points). If he found the odd bullet on the first try, he gave his opponent four sticks; on the second try, three sticks. He lost four sticks to his opponent if the odd bullet remained under the last moccasin. The team getting all twenty sticks won. Sometimes individuals competed.
You'll need some level ground for this game, varieties of which were played by almost every tribe. Even the hoops and poles varied greatly, some hoops having netting, some bearing marks for scoring, some made of stone, some of cornhusks. Perhaps one of the simpler forms of hoop-and-pole fun was the following game played by the Washo Indians.
EQUIPMENT: A hoop made by soaking then bending and tying a twig or sapling into a circle 12 inches in diameter (the Indians wrapped the hoop in buckskin); one pole or lance per player.
Two Indians at a time competed. One rolled the hoop past his opponent who then threw his spear. Impaling the hoop with the spear counted one point. Seven points was game.
The Walapai Indians played a similar game on a 100-foot long course. Two men, each having a lance, ran side by side. One rolled a hoop ahead of them, then they both threw their spears, sliding them across the ground ahead of the hoop. Object: Stop the hoop so that it rests with one edge on the pole; this gave the player one point. If the hoop rested over the point of the pole, it scored four points or game. The point of the pole could not go through the hoop.
Ring-and-pin, another game popular among many Indians, provided hours of entertainment for adults and children alike. Here's how the Assiniboin played:
EQUIPMENT: Seven bones from the feet of deer, strung on a 30-inch thong with a bone needle tied to one end and a piece of buckskin, perforated with one large and several small holes, at the other end.
Swinging the seven bones forward and up, the player tried to catch them on the needle. Or he tried to put the needle through a hole in the buckskin. Game was forty points. Threading the first bone gave the player five points, the second bone, ten points, etc. The small holes in the buckskin counted four points; the large, nine.


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Oil prices fell on Thursday when an increase in U.S. weekly jobless data and disappointing earnings results stoked economic concerns, and the market focused on violence in the Middle East.
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Pressure came after the release of data that showed U.S. weekly jobless benefits claims rose last week, reflecting the impact of late October's superstorm Sandy, which also damped economic activity in the mid-Atlantic states.
Data showing the euro zone slipped into its second recession since 2009 in the third quarter also weighed on prices. Disappointing results from Wal-Mart Stores Inc and the looming U.S. "fiscal cliff" also pressured equity and oil markets.
While most of the oil complex pushed lower in afternoon trade, front-month December Brent crude rose, bolstered by short-covering ahead of the contract's expiry later in the day.
Overall trading was choppy, however, with oil prices briefly pushing higher as violence between Israel and Hamas caught the attention of markets. Hamas fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel, killing three, and Israel launched numerous air strikes across the Gaza Strip.
While events between Israel and the Palestinian territories do not directly threaten supplies, oil markets are sensitive to violence in the Middle East, which pumps a third of the world's oil. Traders worry that Arab producers could be drawn into the conflict, which might affect their supply lines.
"Until there is a clear sign that the instability in the region is spreading toward the oil-producing states, market participants are likely to approach this situation with caution and not overreact to the upside," said Dominick Chirichella of New York's Energy Management Institute.
"That said, as long as the tensions and military activity continue to evolve, oil prices should find some price support in the short term."
The expiring December Brent contract was up 77 cents at $110.38 a barrel at 1:39 p.m. EST (1839 GMT), after stalling ahead of the 50-day moving average of $111.26 a barrel. January Brent, which will become the front-month contract on Friday, dipped 81 cents to $107.67 a barrel.
December U.S. crude oil futures fell $1.08 to $85.24 a barrel.
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"The market was trying to rebound from last week's four-month lows, and when we failed to attract any buying close to the $87 mark (for U.S. oil), the markets turned and some of the new longs bailed," said Gene McGillian, analyst, Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut.
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Two NHGRI Intramural Investigators Selected for Presidential Award
Two NHGRI Intramural Investigators Selected for Presidential Award
Two National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) investigators, a bioinformatician and a cancer geneticist, have received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The awards were presented at a White House ceremony on Dec. 19, 2008, and were among 60 presented to young scientists funded by federal agencies.
Daphne W. Bell, Ph.D., investigator in the Cancer Genetics Branch, and Elliott Margulies, Ph.D., investigator in the Genome Technology Branch, are among 12 PECASE awardees supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the only NIH intramural investigators among this year's awardees.
"The PECASE award is a major honor that identifies young researchers at the vanguard of science, and who are expected to be rising stars," said Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., acting director of NHGRI. "Every recipient can be duly proud of being selected; Dr. Bell and Dr. Margulies are to be commended for achieving this recognition in pursuit of research at NHGRI."
The PECASE award has been conferred annually since 1996 and is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their independent careers. Selection is based on the combination of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and community service demonstrated through scientific leadership and community outreach.
"With their PECASE award, Dr. Bell's cancer research and Dr. Margulies's bioinformatics expertise are being recognized by the highest office in the United States," said Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., NHGRI scientific director. "This is a real feather in their caps and an honor for the NHGRI Division of Intramural Research."
Dr. Bell, who reacted with surprise to the news of her selection, is a cancer geneticist and an NHGRI, tenure-track investigator. "I was astounded," she said. "This is a real honor." Dr. Bell's research aims to identify the genetic changes that are involved in endometrial cancer, the most commonly diagnosed gynecological malignancy in the United States, killing some 7,500 American women each year. Using sophisticated approaches, including DNA sequencing technology, she compares the sequence and number of genes in tumors and healthy tissue from endometrial cancer patients to hunt for mutations and other genetic changes that have led to the development of the tumor.
"In endometrial cancer, we are searching for changes in genes that signal to a cell when it should divide and when it should die," she explained. When these signals are disrupted, normal cells may start to divide uncontrollably forming a tumor. "There are drugs in development that can shut off the faulty signal," she added. "The key is to find the faulty genes." An exciting prospect in her research is the chance that genes altered in endometrial cancer are potentially the same as those altered in other forms of cancer.
"What we appreciate now is that there won't be one kind of genetic change that causes all endometrial cancers," she said, offering that it is necessary to identify the gene signatures present in a specific patient's tumor so that therapies can be tailored to each patient. "This illustrates the importance of understanding the genetic changes that cause cancer and using that information to think about ways to develop personalized treatment approaches."
Dr. Bell, a native of County Armagh in Northern Ireland, completed her bachelor's degree in genetics and zoology and her Ph.D. in biology and biochemistry at Queen's University in Belfast. She conducted postdoctoral research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, and served as an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She joined NHGRI in 2006.
Dr. Margulies is a tenure-track investigator at NHGRI, where he uses high-performance, computational analyses and laboratory-based, high-throughput genomic methods to decipher DNA sequence and genome function. "This award would not have been possible without the phenomenal mentorship and resources that have been available to me at NIH," he said.
With an undergraduate degree in biotechnology from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in human genetics from the University of Michigan, Dr. Margulies arrived at NHGRI in 2001 as a postdoctoral fellow. His research has focused on the development of bioinformatic approaches for identifying and characterizing regions of the human genome that are evolutionarily conserved across multiple species. Genomic regions conserved over evolutionary time tend to be important for the survival of the organism; studying them provides crucial insights into the workings of a genome.
Dr. Margulies develops bioinformatic tools for analyzing the wealth of data that is being generated by genomic research today. "Over the last few years, we have seen a tremendous rise in the amount of DNA being sequenced because of increased speed and decreased costs," Dr. Margulies explained. "As tremendous as that has been, it is just the beginning of where we're going. We already see that the bottleneck is bioinformatics and analysis."
Projecting the prospects for his field, Dr. Margulies has his eyes set on the expansive growth of data to be generated in the coming years when sequencing an individual's genome will no longer be technologically or fiscally prohibitive. "The amount of sequence data to analyze will be large; we're trying to prepare for that," he said, noting that the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center operates around the clock and can fill a terabyte of disk space with new DNA sequence that is generated in just three days. "My hope is that genome sequencing and assembly becomes so common that we can use it to help patients."
The NIH institutes whose extramural grantees also celebrating receipt of 2007 PECASE awards include the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Cancer Institute, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute of Mental Health, and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.


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Before I discuss the Twins transactions of the day, I do want to mention that I had a great time on Fox9's Sports on Demand this afternoon. It was fun being on with Jim Rich, Seth Kaplan and Doogie Wolfson and talking about the Twins and more. The archived show is now online, you can click here to watch all five parts.
The Twins traded Carlos Gomez for JJ Hardy on Friday. On Saturday, they picked up the 2011 option on Michael Cuddyer's contract. Both of those moves, I can 100% back and agree with.
Today they announced that three players were involved in transactions.
- Justin Huber cleared waivers and was sent to Rochester. I believe there is a chance that he remains with the organization although he can become a free agent. He knows that this team gave him a chance, and he came through in AAA and called him up. If not for an oblique injury, he would have been in the Twins lineup several times down the stretch. In fact, remember the Sunday that Justin Morneau did not play for the first time, it was Huber that was supposed to play 1B that day. Unfortunately for him, he hurt himself in batting practice. What if he had stayed healthy, had a good game and played strong defense? How would the season have wound up. Michael Cuddyer would have stayed in RF, Jason Kubel would have played LF. Huber may have been in the lineup with Delmon Young remaining on the bench. Anyway, taking Huber off of the 40 man roster is an easy choice. But hopefully he will decide to remain with the organization, come to spring training, go to Rochester and contribute again.
That move made sense. The other transactions made far less sense, at least to me.
- The Baltimore Orioles claimed righty Armando Gabino from the Twins. This means that the Twins took him off the 40 man roster. With the worst record in the AL, the Orioles would have been the first team with the opportunity to claim him, and they did. As I am working on prospect profiles for the Minnesota Twins Prospect Handbook – 2010, I got to the G's over the weekend. Since he won't be with the Twins, I won't have his profile in the book. Here is the unedited version of what I had:
Armando Gabino – RHP – (8/31/83)
Acquired: Min. Lg. Rule 5 selection in Dec. 2004 from Indians
2009 Team(s): Rochester Red Wings, Minnesota Twins
2009 Minor League Stats: 6-4, 2.94 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 98 IP, 24 BB, 64 K
2009 Major League Stats: 0-0, 17.18 ERA, 3.82 WHIP, 3.2 IP, 5 BB, 2 K
Gabino signed with the Cleveland Indians in 2001 as a 3B. In 2004, they moved him to the pitcher's mound. That offseason, the Twins saw him and drafted him in the minor league Rule 5 draft. 2007 was his coming out season when he pitched at Low-A, High-A and AA. In 75 total innings, he went 5-2 with eight saves and a 1.80 ERA. He backed it up with a full season at AA with a 3.10 ERA in 81.1 innings. In 2009, he was Rochester's best, most consistent pitcher throughout the season whether out of the bullpen or in his seven starts. Twins fans got to see him make one start for the big league club, and it didn't go so well. His seven starts in Rochester in 2009 were his first starts since one start in 2006 in Elizabethton. His big league future is in middle or long relief. Gabino has a fastball in the low-90s. He also has a good slider. As you would expect from a former infielder, he fields his position very well.
- Juan Morillo was added to the 40 man roster. When the Twins claimed Morillo from the Rockies early this season, it was very exciting that the Twins now had a guy who could literally throw a fastball in the upper 90s. Three appearances later, the Twins sent him back through waivers. He cleared and spent the rest of the season in Rochester. The thought was that he could work there all year and try to gain better control. So, as a Twins fan, which do you pay more attention to… his 87 strikeouts in 67 innings, or his 51 walks in 67 strikeouts? As wonderful as a 98 mph fastball can be, 6.9 walks per nine innings is horrible. Of course it is better than the 8.4 walks per nine innings in 2008. If he could find a way to throw enough strikes to walk less than five per nine innings, he could be a decent reliever. If he could get it below four, he could be an 8th inning guy. Does anyone see that happening? Not me.
- So there needs to be another explanation, right? I think I've got one. A few days ago, NPB reported that there may be some interest in Japan for Morillo. If Morillo became a free agent (something he would have), he could have signed with any team in the US or Japan. The Twins decided to protect him. Therefore, if he wants to go to Japan, or a Japanese team wants to sign him, they will have to compensate the Twins.
Both Gabino and Morillo will turn 27 years old during the 2010 season. Morillo throws hard. Gabino throws strikes. Morillo's ceiling is dominance. Gabino's ceiling is solid long reliever. Gabino has two option years left. Morillo is out of options.
What do you think? Send me an e-mail, or leave your Comments here.


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Thanks so much for that website - it's a complete laugh!
But is is set up by the government? Seriously? If so, this country is in serious trouble; we are being run by retards.
In the least shocking news of the day, it appears that the government's latest internet loon-magnet is attracting an awful lot of lunatics. The Treasury's Spending Challenge site was supposed to be a way for the great British public to create a wonder-Wiki of savings ideas for the coalition government. There's no denying it is …
Thoughtfully, some bright spark has already started labelling various suggestions (using the term in the losest possible sense) with the "daily mail" tag:
Makes it a lot easier to identify the people with rabid mouth froth.
Interesting just how many involve the word "immigrant". I think I can already hear the strains of Tomorrow Belongs To Me...
Seriously Oats, stop copying and pasting your articles from the Daily Mail. Normally you are better than this.
You (like them) fail to mention that although there are a lot of terrible ideas, those ideas are mostly being discussed rationally and either have very low votes or many comments saying how bad an idea it is.
What would you rather have? A board where the public can submit their ideas for moderation but only those that will definitely be done are approved for discussion or should they just not bother even trying anything new and stick to the old Labour ways? Ignoring everyone and giving all our cash to scum or spending it on new CEOP databases. I guess at least that would keep you whining reporters in jobs.
The "Your Freedom" website has cannabis back on the tag cloud. Huh. Surprisingly (unlike the posters) the ideas aren't half-baked: Legalise, Tax, Regulate with the added bonus of ridding the legal high market of it's business.
*reaches for smoking jacket... i think there's a lighter in here somewhere... rummages*
I think there are only two laws worth adding - the first limits the number of laws allowed, so that once it's reached they have to scrap an old one to add a new one, the second is to put a best-before-date on all legislation, so that after 5/10/20 years it expires unless debated and approved for an extension by both Houses of Parliament. This would eventually achieve the first aim, when they're spending all their time renewing old laws and don't have time to create new ones.
Rather than working with real end users why not just pipe the output from the Twat-O-Tron straight into the input for the site? Same content, much time and effort saved.
That said, the bigotry is only about half the content - there's a lot of middle class pocket-lining as well and a few very well reasoned discussions. Interestingly you'll surprisingly often find a thought-through and interesting argument behind a title that sounds like it's going to be the wildest rantings of a boggle-eyed red-faced foaming lunatic.
Found one suggestion that seems to be reasonably sane if not a little optimistic:
Competitive Innovation - pay several smaller IT companies to demo system solutions and choose from the best instead of paying the "big four" (5, shurely?) £30m a pop
So if we all vote this one up the gov can still ignore it since everyone knows the Tory party just like the last government are all bankrolled by big biz and there's too much dosh at stake for them to lose...
Can't work out if some of these are genuine fucktards thinking they are sensible suggestions, or (hopefully) people just taking the piss.
The best 2 posted in the last 5 minutes:
Sponsorship or Advertising on Army Tanks
The Poster lesliecowe thoughtfully mentions that "Obviously any advert needs to be vetted so that it doesn't offend Muslim sensibilities." and the implementation suggestion that "Graphics will need resistance to combat conditions"
But greatest idea so far:
Blair/Brown/Mandy cage fight on pay per view
The search is down, but I did like the motions to repeal the laws of gravity and thermodynamics.
Note that doing so would be marginally less difficult than an Ordinary Decent Briton managing to remain aware of all the laws that are currently in effect, and their practical interpretation by the various incarnations of the State.
Please ask Ordinary Decent Briton, currently waiting for results of his GCSEs, to describe laws of gravity and thermodynamics. :-) Relatively speaking, it's not an e = mcc issue, (and _that's_ probably a cricket question on this year's syllabus)
Seriously, surely "loon shall talk sh*t unto loon" is better than "local council shall interpret anti-terrorism legislation to spy on parents who want the best for their kids" ? Also, it's a better use of money than "nation shall spend £12bn on Richard s - sorry, on consultants - to run NHS IT project that the professionals have been able to see for years was going to be a screw-up"


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