take some time to sign the petition against tracking you BB is watching!!! The idea of tracking every vehicle at all times is sinister and wrong. Road pricing is already here with the high level of taxation on fuel. The more you travel - the more tax you pay.
It will be an unfair tax on those who live apart from families and poorer people who will not be able to afford the high monthly costs.
Please Mr Blair - forget about road pricing and concentrate on improving our roads to reduce congestion.
click the link and sign up
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
What does a guy have to do what does a guy have to do to get trusted round here,i live in newbury, the most boring place possibley in the whole world, and nothing ever happens, someone should set up somekinda code so ppl trust other ppl.
peace
Adrian
Viagra used to save a baby’s life
bbc.co.uk wrote:
Lewis Goodfellow was born at 24 weeks weighing just 1lb 8oz. One of his lungs had failed and not enough oxygen was able to get into his bloodstream.
Doctors at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary then tried Sildenafil, also known under the trade name of Viagra, and Lewis is now home with his parents.
The drug opened up tiny blood vessels in the baby's lungs.
Parents Jade Goodfellow and John Barclay, from Walker, Newcastle believe the drug - more usually associated with anti-impotence - saved his life.
The full report is here
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Most spiking cases ‘just drunk’
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Most spiking cases 'just drunk'
Most patients who believe they have had their drinks spiked test negative for drugs, research at Wrexham Maelor Hospital has found.
The study aimed to assess the scale of drink-spiking in the area and identify problems at specific clubs and pubs. But the year-long investigation of hospital patients found less than one in five showed any trace of drugs.
The research concluded the patients' symptoms were more likely to be the result of excess alcohol.
So-called "date rape" drugs include ketamine, Rohypnol and GHB.
During the 12-month study there were 75 alleged cases of drink-spiking. Patient samples were analysed for alcohol and drug levels, and information was recorded about where the alleged spiking had happened. The alleged incidents took place in 23 different locations, although two locations accounted for 31% of the cases. Only 14% of the patients had informed the police.
The research, which was published in the Emergency Medicine Journal, found 65% were twice the legal drink-driving limit, and 24% were three times the drink-drive limit.
Dr Peter Saul, a GP in Wrexham, said the report's findings "should not belittle the danger" people faced either from drink-spiking or drinking too much alcohol. He told BBC Radio Wales: "There had always been a suspicion that people would say that their drinks had been spiked when perhaps they had misjudged how much alcohol they were taking.
"If you go home and your parents are there, and you are vomiting on the path, and you come in in a terrible state, you get sympathy if you say 'oh, my drink was spiked.'
"You don't get sympathy if you say 'we spent too long in the bar'."
Dr Saul said the report did not make it clear if people's drinks had been spiked by alcohol, as opposed to drugs.
Breathalysing
He said: "It could explain the figures of people with very high alcohol levels." He added: "The message has to be to be careful, not just about having your drink spiked but the total amount of alcohol you have when you are going out for the night."
Professor Jonathan Shepherd is a Cardiff-based surgeon who has pioneered a method for hospital casualty units to compile statistics on the drink-related assaults. He told the same programme: "It really puts to bed a myth that's very widely held that drinks are spiked when in reality they are not."
Prof Shepherd's research has included breathalysing up to 900 late-night drinkers in Cardiff city centre.
He said: "There is certainly a sizeable minority who are drinking huge amounts of alcohol. "For all of us, it's a cautionary tale - we ought to be deciding beforehand how much are going to drink on a night out."
'Precautions'
However, Prof Shepherd acknowledged that drink-spiking was a still a risk, which he said was easier to prevent by drinking from a bottle rather than a large glass.
Dr Hywel Hughes, who led the study at the Wrexham Maelor Hospital, said the survey's results should not obscure the risks of drink spiking, as one-in-five people tested showed signs of "drugs of abuse". He said: "The bigger picture is probably the alcohol but spiking does go on, so people do need to take precautions against that."
I have believed for a while a lot of the claims of drinks being spiked are down to excessive alcohol. I know it does happen but i do find a lot of girls use this an excuse for being pissed as a fart really.
UK : SE : Electronic sniffer dog for Reading’s cops.. http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/chronicle/headlines/tm_headline=new-police-weapon-to-banish-drugs-from-nightspots%26method=full%26objectid=18614959%26siteid=50102-name_page.html
New police weapon to banish drugs from nightspots
Feb 13 2007
By Eric Tlozek
POLICE are stepping up their zero tolerance drugs campaign across Reading's nightlife scene by putting revellers and club workers under a high-tech microscope.
A super scanner - the £30,000 GE Itemiser which arrives at Reading police station in six weeks' time - is able to pick up traces of different drugs on clothes,shoes and bags.
The machine,commonly used at airport security points to test for explosives, could be set up outside specific pubs and clubs or taken inside to check out staff.
The portable unit, weighing just 12 kilograms (26lbs), analyses swabs taken by rubbing people's clothing and possessions with a special 'wand'.
It takes just seven seconds - less than a normal security check - to determine whether narcotics are present.
It also detects a range of eight different kinds of drugs and in what concentration they are present - differentiating between a hardened user and someone who comes into accidental contact with a drug trace.
Reading town centre Inspector Andy Bagnall said the machine would be used in many different situations.
He said: "It's a good bit of kit. I intend to use it in every situation it can be used in."
He said the machine would be particularly effective for the managers of pubs and clubs to ensure their staff are not involved with drugs.
Insp Bagnall added: "It is a fact of life in the night-time economy and we will be making sure that licensees' policies to control it are working. It's about being proactive in this area and I think it will help us greatly."
Barn!! was a good party quite a few people turned up. only problem was we needed to leave early cos someone needed to get to work but we were blocked in by a van so couldnt go for a couple of hours. You all have fun?????12…45
BBC 2 to show 9/11 Conspiracy Documentary This Sunday...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/conspiracy_files/6354679.stm
Accusations that the American Government was complicit in the 9/11 attacks are becoming increasingly bitter and widespread.
9/11 was the first global event in the age of the internet. And now the world wide web is being used as a platform for a wide range of conspiracy theories - more than 50 at the last count - which allege that the US government was somehow involved in the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
In the past, you needed the backing of a Hollywood studio or a major broadcaster to reach a global audience. Now, all you need is a bargain basement computer and a little technical know-how.
Dylan Avery is a case in point. He's the 23-year-old documentary maker behind an internet phenomenon.
When he was turned down by film school, he decided to make his own movie - and distribute it over the world wide web.
Loose Change has been viewed tens of millions of times and pulls no punches when it comes to saying who he believes is behind 9/11.
"Our government will willingly kill its own citizens for whatever gain it deems necessary," he told The Conspiracy Files, "and then lie as much as they need to cover it up."
An accusation the US Government categorically denies.
Those who question the official account of 9/11 form a broad coalition. At the other extreme to Dylan Avery is Professor Jim Fetzer.
Scientific views
Fetzer is a former US Marine officer and retired professor of philosophy. Puzzled by the apparent discrepancies in the official account of 9/11, he founded a coalition of like-minded academics called Scholars For 9/11 Truth.
Its purpose is to research exactly what happened that day, using the principles of scientific research.
"Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction," says Professor Fetzer. "As Sherlock Holmes was fond of observing, 'when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'"
The members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth refuse to accept that the attacks were just down to Al Qaeda.
"The very idea," says Fetzer, "that 19 Islamic fundamentalists could have hijacked these four commercial airliners, outfoxed the most sophisticated air defence system in the world, under control of a man in a cave in Afghanistan is only the most outrageous of the conspiracy theories."
"That has forced us in the direction of a deeper and darker complicity by officials of our own government."
Conspiracy theorists are tapping in to a rich vein of cynicism across America.
Alex Jones, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, is a leading voice in the self-styled 9/11 Truth Movement. He believes 9/11 was "an inside job."
"It's a self inflicted wound, it's a false-flag terror operation," he claims. "We're going to expose the lies one by one, we're never going to stop and we will prevail, we will win, we will never surrender."
Fighting back
But the US Government is fighting back. President Bush has said: "We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of Sept 11th."
And to try and fight the internet bloggers on their own territory, the US State Department has launched a website to debunk conspiracy theories - not just about 9/11 but a whole range of urban myths and inaccurate stories circulating on the internet.
After the attacks, government officials were summoned to give evidence before a Congressional Inquiry set up to investigate the intelligence failure before 9/11.
Co-chairman Senator Bob Graham told The Conspiracy Files of his frustration at the lack of co-operation from the FBI in that inquiry, and by the government's decision to censor over 30 pages of his report which related to Saudi Arabia.
"Within 9/11 there are too many secrets," he said, "and that withholding of those secrets has eroded public confidence in their government as it relates to their own security."
The Conspiracy Files investigated the many questions that have been raised to find out what really happened on 9/11. You can read the results of that research by clicking on the links below.
The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 will be broadcast on Sunday, 18 February 2007 at 2100 GMT on BBC Two.
Blood centre cuts They are planning to centralise processing and testing of blood in 3 centres in England.
bbc.co.uk wrote:
Demonstrations are planned outside many centres including those in Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and Southampton.
The union Amicus has voted to take industrial action but the National Blood Service denies patients will be put at risk by the changes.
"Closing centres will mean precious blood supplies will have to be transported from one end of the country to the next.
"This is not only riskier, but will undermine the service's ability to cope with emergencies such as the London bombings, putting people's lives in further danger.
:arrow:Go and show some moral support guys - once these services are gone they will be hard to get back and some of you may one day be affected by these decisions. It means that blood will have to be sent to one of these processing centres for screening etc and then shipped back out to where its needed - hardly sensible or enviromentally friendly to my mind
FR/UK : RIP Jade – Time Runs Out for a Teenage Runaway This appeal is from Julien - one of the French ravers on SJ...
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Jade was a girl who was only 15 years old..she has been found dead because of overdose over her dirty thielthy bed in a squatt in the suburb of paris on saturday the 15 of january 2006.
Unknown family.Her body is surely going to be thrown in a...ooh shit don't the name in english...>>a hole where every anonymous body are thrown..
We don't have too much information about her, for some she was she was 15, other 18 etc... she was telling people that she was the daughter of a prostitute, that she escaped from england with "a guy"...
If this was true and if by luck someone knows something precise about her family please this send a mail to this guy>>>>> david_souslalune@yahoo.fr
jade shall not be forgetten... a fallen angel.
this unfortunate girl claims to have links with the UK, although it is possible this is just "boasting" as young Euro-ravers look up to Britain's free party scene,
From her age it is possible her parents would be in their late 20s to mid 30s - and may have been old skool ravers / alternative types.. if anyone knows anything please come forward....
once again on this so-called "fun party scene" a young life is just erased and thrown away.
How many more "Jades" have there been over the years, and how many more will they be before this community starts properly looking out for each other - before it is too late? :(
RIP
2007-02-09 9th Feb ’07 Brighton live dnb brighton's first clubnight devoted to live dnb. every month we'll bring some of teh best in underground live music along with our very own resident djs. its all about variety, originality and er.....basslines, obviously.
i'll be doing the visuals for this so come down and have a chat....
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are we in a social depression era? i dont mean to be negative or depressive, i'm personally lovin life at the moment but i mean the country as a whole.
seems to me we are so divided as a nation, no signle style of music or political agenda to unite us. noone gives a shit where we are heading, many people are really unhappy with the state we are in and for many the solution is to go get smashed on cheap booze or heavily cut drugs. addicts and abusers are everywhere! kids grow up in concrete jungles abused and neglected by parents with drug gangs everywhere.
for me it isn't entirely like this but for the country... i dunno. sorry for bringin in a negative post but i wish i could be positive about the state of the country at the moment. um... well, we do have a kick-arse music scene in general i reckon raaa
edit: i mean socially not economically by the way. it aint too bad and we have a lot to be thankful for, but a long way to go until the population can be trusted (wrong word?) not to abuse more freedom!
2007-02-16 Techno / Drum & Bass / Jungle Party Bash in Reading – hosted by Ketwork 32 Hi All,
We would like to invite you to a party we are organising on the 16th of Feburary in Plug n Play studio in Reading.
We will be promoting some really outstanding local DJ talents playing diffrent genres of Techno, Hard House, Drum n Bass and Jungle and Jungletek. For those of you who have not been to Plug n Play it is a very friendly and cosy venue - bar staff and security are very informal so the atmosphere is nice and chilled almost like in a warehouse party but with no muggings LOL
5k SOUNDSYSTEM BY KETWORK 32
Line up:
Main room - Techno, Acid Techno, Hard House, Spiral Techno.
Visuals by VJ Starramanga
Phil the Noize (Reading's finest hard house and techno DJ - in my opinion)
Pok Rent (Acid Techno DJ from Poland)
Homemade Acid (special DJ set by this awesome Acid Techno producer - he will be playing some original music which you can sample on http://www.myspace.com/homemadeacid )
Kaptain K (Technosense, check out the tunes at http://www.myspace.com/kaptain_kss)
DJ Whizza (Ketwork 32, http://www.myspace.com/djwhizza )
Mayro (Freetek, Poland)
Room 2 Drum n Bass, Jungle, Jungletek
DJ Dabble (Ketwork 32 http://www.myspace.com/djdabblek32 )
DJ Karnage (Ketwork 32)
Angel of Light (Project Mayhem)
DJ Potassium (SRK)
and a special old school drum n bass set by Dee Walters (Dee is a well known figure on Readings metal scene, he currently runs one of Reading's best pubs The Turks - in his previous life he DJd with Armageddon Soundystem and we managed to convince him to blow the dust off his old vinyl - he promised he would play some phat records you would not have heard in years)
SPECIAL LIVE DRUMS SETS BY BRENDON AND FRITZ
We will be raving till 6 am so there is plenty of time to have fun. and there will be an afterparty in some unlucky sod's house i am sure ;-)
so - come on over, bring your friends...see you on the 16 th:-)
Plug n Play Studios Unit 33 Milford Road Reading
11 pm - 6 pm
Entry: 5 pounds
For more info email pcpproject@hotmail.co.uk
Music executives criticise DRM systems
bbc.co.uk wrote:
Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks, finds a survey.
The full report is here
Would you buy your music if it had no DRM when in mp3 format?
I dont download or buy tracks as mp3s anyway so it wouldnt affect me - only mp3s I have in my life are the radio streams and sets by myself and others recorded in that format:groucho:
firefox 3.0 alpha 3 pre Windows : http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-3.0a3pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe
linux : http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-3.0a3pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
MacOS : http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-3.0a3pre.en-US.mac.dmg
if you're using many extensions you might want to wait
i put it in here as don't know if this is suppoed to be available yet
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