CH : Cat guides lost foreigner from mountains back to village. Apparently he's not the first person the cat has rescued!
TBH makes more sense to trust a cat than follow the (often inaccurate and incomplete) GPS maps on a mobile phone (which might not even be able to receive overseas data); cats tend to hang around places where food can be easily found and in Europe usually live in or near to human neighbourhoods.
Cat 'guides injured walker to safety' after he got lost in Swiss Alps | The Independent
Clubwear metallic T-shirts hi, I'm trying to find metallic looking shirts, T-shirts or dress shirts with no insignia were markings beyond a solid color, and I'm not having much luck. Can anyone suggest any retailers or websites that sell them
AU/CA : Two young women brag about cruise on Instagram, busted by AU feds with coke It is going to be very difficult for them (and another older Canadian caught with even more on the same cruise) to explain away this amount of coke) - and even more foolish for anyone who is travelling across countries when there is the slightest suspicion of how they might afford to do so (here in Europe most folk who go on world cruises are retired middle aged people - the tickets cost €18 000 each).
3 countries feds are involved, CA, US and AU.... Australia is also one of the worst "Western" counties to get busted for drugs; it seems to have harsher penalties than anywhere else than some bits of the USA...
Two Canadian women are facing life in prison after £17.5m drug bust in Australia - BBC Newsbeat
US/EG : Warning, contaminated strawberries linked to Hep A breakout in 6 US states Just had a look on Google and 3 of the states are the main bits of USA where strawberries are normally grown; how on earth does it makes any sense to import them from Egypt? (about 10 000km away and not the most stable country politically at the moment...)
Strawberries linked to multistate hepatitis A outbreak - CNN.com
Introduction I'm on vacation and will be rolling through Kansas City tomorrow I had heard there's a decent Molly scene and was wondering if that's true. Besides that I'm 19 and a trans guy I love Lucy more than anybody else and I sell on and off again when I get bored
DE : SilentMOD Lichtinstallation im Kölner Dom The conservatives/traditionalists (mostly from USA) aren't too happy about this, calling it Sin, profanation and all sorts else but it has full approval of the church authorities there. (although the Church of England have allowed redundant churches to have similar arts installations).
I wasn't expecting myself to see such a thing happening in the Kölner Dom! To be fair it seems respectful enough whilst showing off a lot of modern technology (and better than a great deal of modern Christian music!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lo1XO1hJU
A short documentary from a German Catholic youth site (worth watching even if you don't understand the dialogue just to see the theology prof trying to look like a Berlin hipster :laugh_at:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CGQlJbc0GQ
Amazon sent me this marketing email a few days ago.. Not sure what to make of this and/or WTF Amazon thinks I might be up to!
I had been looking at rosary beads but of better quality (I'm sure they weren't in the toy section either) - as well as a "grown ups" pen case (to keep my fountain pens in) as well a cheap rubber snake and some rubber rats/mice but none of these are intended for any sinful purposes - the fake animals are to test an animal detector I plan to build (so I know when to watch for creatures in the garden and photograph them)
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Genetics boffins foxed by Excel data imports… To be fair, this autoconversion of text into dates is a known feature of Excel (and some open source equivalents) and has been for some years - whether or not it is desirable or useful depends on the incoming date (even valid dates/times can be mangled if they get inadvertantly converted to American format when you are in a European country).
It can be prevented in various ways (by ensuring the column is treated as raw text and not autoformatted into anything else) and is not Microsofts fault - as one the profs himself points out Excel is not always the best tool for scientific analysis (I would have thought something like scilab or matlab might be better; and that people who are much smarter than myself to do this kind of research and presumably are in top science Universities should surely have access to better IT resources?)
Microsoft Excel blamed for gene study errors - BBC News
UK : England : good article about exam related hassles ni this country not sure if there are any UK teens who can still easily get to this website (thanks to the various content filters) but it might be of use to any parents of schoolkids who stumble across this post...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/27/blight-childrens-lives-five-good-gcses-exam-success
Whatsapp now passing data to Facebook and will allow businesses to send ads TBH I never saw any real need to use Whatsapp even before the FB takeover; as I get issued a mobile device for work, and even PAYG mobile call and data costs are dirt cheap (or included in bundles) compared to what they used to be, and the harsh reality is global telecoms networks are always going to be accessible to feds/govt/security services, as they are the biggest paying customers of such networks as well as having the power to regulate them.
Giving away your private data to private companies in the hope that they might "make it safer" (without actually paying these companies to do this and then still independently auditing what they are actually doing with it) isn't going to work.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/25/whatsapp-backlash-facebook-data-privacy-users
UK : East : Cops now using roadside drugs testing against ravers Interestingly by the sounds of it they didn't lock off the entire rave (which was fairly large) and there are few other news reports that it even happened.
There are many areas of Breckland (where Thetford Forest is) where there are few houses around and it is possible to make all sorts of noise without being noticed; however lots of these are still active MOD training areas (for the very same reason!) - and this particular area is very near a military training camp.
The times of the report to the Police hint that it wasn't the rave that might have been noticed but the behaviour of drivers trying to attend it.
Me and my friends have been personally advised (albeit 15 years ago) by Police officers from the Thames Valley Roads Policing (one of them later was commonly seen on the reality crime show "Road Wars") that raves themselves (provided they did not cause noise nuisance, pollution or damage) weren't as much of an issue in comparison to traffic offences such as DUI and other dangerous driving - which in fact harms far more young people (as well as risking innocent bystanders) than any drug use!
At The last EA rave I went to I saw a nasty RTC occur amongst people leaving (large SUV type vehicle lost control and rolled over) - this put me off going to them again. The vehicle driver and passengers all needed hospital treatment and one young woman suffered injuries that are likely to cause her chronic pain problems for years if not the rest of her life.
One problem with todays outdoor raves is they go on much longer on Sunday (the cops themselves admit the site was not clear by 19:30) - that isn't good as people are going to be even more sleep deprived and full of drugs (making driving home much more risky), previous ones started winding down around 10:00 and were voluntarily ended by about 12:00-13:00 on Sunday.
Also if the cops when they arrive see a rave standing down and clearing the site, many would prefer getting back to their families for Sunday dinner as opposed to working overtime locking off the event and seizing the rig (which requires extra units, paperwork etc). Cops like food (especially Norfolk ones from those I have seen over the years) :laugh_at:
another factor is there is a very high level of road traffic collisions across the region where young drivers and passengers have been killed or seriously injured. This is as much a fault of wider British society and our countrys poor transport infrastructure; reading between the lines also suggests that the cops had insufficient public order units to close down the rave "hard" and seize the rig but plenty of specialist traffic units (although what they did here seems fairer in the long run)
(this quote below is from Norfolk/Suffolk Constabulary combined press office)
25 August 2016
Three people who attended an unlicensed music event at Bodney, near Thetford, at the weekend have been arrested on suspicion of drug driving.
It follows an incident which happened on Sunday when police were called at 7.40am about suspicious activity at the location.
Officers arrived on scene to find an unlicensed music event which at its peak was attended by 500 people with 200 vehicles on site.
Police vehicles were used to close entrances to the site to prevent further vehicles from entering and the event was monitored throughout the day with the site cleared by 7.30pm.
A number of vehicles were stopped with drivers drug tested using roadside kits and three people were arrested on suspicion of drug driving.
Two men, aged 20 and 29, were questioned at Wymondham Police Investigation Centre and released on bail until 10 October while enquiries continue. A third man, aged 21, was arrested and questioned but released without charge.
Inspector Jon Chapman, from the Norfolk and Suffolk Roads Policing Unit, said the arrests served as a warning to people attending such events.
He said: "The event on Sunday was-well established by the time police became aware of it and measures were put in place to prevent it from escalating.
"A number of people driving home from the event were stopped by roads policing officers, concerned about the manner of driving and three people tested positive for drugs at the roadside.
"Driving under the influence of drugs or drink impairs your judgements and will make your reaction time slower, therefore increasing the chances of you becoming involved in a serious or fatal collision. We will pro-actively target such offences at these events.”
Club 414 This club 414 in Brixton me and a mate thinking of going there one night, does anybody have any feedback on their psych trance nights good, average, great, bad, and what about the mix of crowd, all ages or mostly young, etc., what about crowded or room to rock, appreciated, shame the club on Acer Road before Xmas didn't didn't continue, it was cool.
SG : Singapore deploys self-driving taxicabs They even managed to beat Uber to delivering a service; although one big factor in this companies favour is SG is a small and extremely well engineered and well planned country with an extremely high level of traffic safety.
Another is although USA often claims SG is a poster child for "free market economies and deregulation" this is not strictly true; SG has a more hardline attitude to rules and regulations than Northern Europe (including DE) although by and large follows EU regulations for everything (in spite of being thousands of km away).
It also has a very high level of direct investment by govt (therefore using the taxpayers money) in private companies, to the point they could be classed as part nationalised, except the level of govt control is perhaps more subtle. (This is hard to explain and I am not an economist; although its not dissimilar to how Germany operates).
Corporate taxation is lower than Europe as the govt are at least smart enough to realise that overtaxing companies they already own and have some control of is pointless but there is a lot of pressure on startup companies there to actually deliver something useful (which by and large they do).
TBH I'd trust this service in SG way more than one in USA....
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/self-driving-taxis-roll-out-in-singapore-beating-uber-to-it
UK : SE : British cops experiment with mobile data in 1969! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0sOpqF1a7w
although it took until until 2005/6 the UK cops actually got anything like this in operational use; not only was tech like that way more expensive in 1969; the patrol car wouldn't go much faster than 50 km/h once it was weighed down with the extra equipment (on top of radio transmitters that still then used valves) and the data transmissions blew rude raspberries into the ears of the coppers using the telephone handset for voice radio comms on nearby frequencies :laugh_at:
UK : Another BBC report on high strength pills/darknet sales This young lads usage patterns are worrying (multiple doses of 233 mg pills) - although he may at least have had the sense to claim all 24 pills were for his own personal use - it wasn't that long ago if you were caught that would result an intent to supply charge and 24 months jail...
That said I don't think they are likely to kill him outright, but he'd enjoy them a lot more if he took less at each dose and if he carries on at that rate risks ending up suffering chronic low level mental health problems like loads of 90s/2000s era ravers..
also the entire darknet trade is being investigated by RAND corp (who designed USA nuclear bombs back in the day) on the invitation of the Netherlands Government and Europol/Interpol (the full reports are on Dutch govt website); it is easier to track darknet trades when they are concentrated around one small country (and MDMA trade is) without even having to decrypt anything; just by following the physical movement of parcels etc (bear in mind these are already scanned and checked automatically in case of IED risks as well as operational requirements of the postal services such as dimension checking)
The growing popularity, and potency, of ecstasy and MDMA - BBC News
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