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China vows zero tolerance for GM rice
Post Date: 2014-07-30 05:35:28 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese authorities have vowed zero tolerance and harsh punishments for illegal sales and growing of genetically modified (GM) crops days after media exposure of GM rice on sale at a supermarket in central China. "The ministry will punish any companies or individuals who illegally grow or sell GM grains, and there will be no tolerance for these practices," said a statement sent to Xinhua on Tuesday by the office in charge of GM food safety with the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA). China Central Television (CCTV) found GM rice, which is illegal to sell or grow commercially in China, on sale in a supermarket in Wuhan, capital city of central Hubei ...
Nurse struck by lightning inside her house was saved by her flip flops
Post Date: 2014-07-30 03:55:43 by Tatarewicz
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DailyMirror UK Jennifer Lyons, 49, had a lucky escape, thanks to her rubber-soled shoes A care home nurse struck by lightning inside her house was saved by her rubber-soled flip-flops. Jennifer Lyons, 49, was on the phone when a 300,000-volt strike hit a satellite dish and set her home on fire. The bolt forced plug switches from the walls and blew out the hot water, phone lines and internet. Jennifer said: "It was like a bomb. "I was knocked back. "There was debris everywhere. "A fireman said it was one of the most unusual cases he'd seen." She was left with just a bump on her forehead after the storm on Saturday. The mum, of Chippenham, Wilts, ...
Hague court orders Russia to pay $50 billion in Yukos oil case
Post Date: 2014-07-29 01:01:08 by Tatarewicz
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LA Times... The Kremlin expropriated Yukos in 2005; GML group was seeking $114 billion Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Yukos' founder, was sentenced in 2005 to 10 years; Vladimir Putin pardoned him last year 'This is a great day for the rule of law,' said Emmanuel Gaillard, New York-based attorney A court in the Netherlands has ordered Russia to pay more than $50 billion in damages to the former shareholders of the now defunct Yukos oil corporation that was dismembered in a controversial bankruptcy case nearly a decade ago. In the ruling Monday, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague said it would award GML group just under half of its $114-billion claim to help compensate for ...
International vs national law: a manufactured controversy?
Post Date: 2014-07-29 00:28:54 by Tatarewicz
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The European Convention on Human Rights guarantees the right to lead a family life with one's children The rightwing Swiss People’s Party is calling for a people’s initiative, saying that “democratically legitimised Swiss law” should take precedent over international law, despite the constitution stating the opposite. But human rights experts say the conflict is artificial. “I can’t rule out a special party conference on this topic this year,” People’s Party President Toni Brunner told swissinfo.ch. After an internal party consultation process about a possible constitutional amendment in the field of “national law versus international ...
80 Years Ago: Gangster Dillinger Helped Create the FBI
Post Date: 2014-07-28 17:22:07 by BTP Holdings
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80 Years Ago: Gangster Dillinger Helped Create the FBI Tuesday marked the 80th anniversary of the shooting death of gangster John Dillinger at the hands of law enforcement officials — an event that has been credited with helping to create the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Dillinger was the most notorious of several gangsters and bank robbers of the early 1930s. He held up at least 12 banks, took part in raids on police stations to obtain guns and ammunition, and was accused of murdering an Indiana police officer. In 1934, he became the first American to be declared "Public Enemy No. 1." Because Dillinger operated across state lines, his crimes became federal offenses. ...
Italian prison blasted over inmate 'happy hour'
Post Date: 2014-07-27 23:27:10 by Tatarewicz
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Local it...A row has erupted in Milan over prison staff allegedly organizing regular "happy hour" nights for inmates, complete with alcohol and external guests, Italian media reported on Wednesday. Female prisoners at Milan’s San Vittore have been enjoying the twice-weekly happy hour, organized by staff at the jail, Ansa reported. The events soon sparked the disapproval of Osapp, the prison guards’ union, which has sent a complaint to both the Ministry of Justice and the Senate president. According to Osapp, prison staff agreed to organize the happy hours which ran until “late at night” with “external guests”. Prisoners were provided with a ...
Top German university switches master's to English
Post Date: 2014-07-27 23:04:10 by Tatarewicz
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Local de UPDATE: One of Germany’s top universities wants to ditch German and switch almost all of its master’s programmes to English in the next six years, prompting fears that the academic standing of the German language is under serious threat. Munich's Technical University (TU), one of the highest ranked in Germany, already uses English in 30 of its 99 master's courses. Now the board of trustees has followed a recommendation by the university's president, Wolfgang Herrmann, to switch to English for most other master's modules by 2020. "English is the lingua franca in academia and of the economy," Herrmann told the Süddeutsche Zeitung on ...
Event Report: Bonham Quilt Hop/2014
Post Date: 2014-07-26 20:23:10 by X-15
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"Quilt Hop attracts quilters, quilt lovers Quilters and quilt lovers have their plans all sewn up for this weekend because the 2014 Bonham Quilt Hop began Friday, July 25 and continues Saturday, July 26. The event kicked off Friday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. with quilt displays at eight locations around Bonham, showcasing historic, antique, and contemporary quilts, including quilts from the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky." Here's the quilt I displayed. The Dresden plates were made by my Mom and the quilt was assembled by my Grandmother. The individual pieces in the 'pinwheels' are dress scraps from the 1940's that my Grandmother saved (during the war, ...
If You Need to Hurl
Post Date: 2014-07-26 14:05:02 by Lod
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German Move To Russia & BRICS Spells Obama Doom
Post Date: 2014-07-26 04:24:21 by Tatarewicz
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Sorcha Faal... A shocking new report prepared by the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) circulating in the Kremlin today states that Germany’s Federal Foreign Office (FFO) contacted Moscow this week requesting an accelerated membership course for their joining the BRICS economic community as they plan to leave the European Union (EU), a move Russian experts said would “spell doom” to the Obama regimes “dream of empire”. BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and as of 2013, the five BRICS countries represent almost 3 billion people with a combined nominal GDP of US$16.039 ...
Dutch Mayor Apologizes for Threatening to Deport Putin's Daughter
Post Date: 2014-07-25 02:21:38 by Tatarewicz
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ght 17 One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's daughters resides in a small town in the Netherlands, but now after the disaster of Flight MH17, her neighbors are seeking her exile. Putin's two daughters, Maria and Yekaterina, are rarely in the news, in or outside of Russia. However, Maria allegedly lives in Voorschoten, just outside of the city of Hilversum. The mayor of Hilversum is none too pleased with this, and has recently suggested kicking her out of town. The mayor of Hilversum, Pieter Broertjes, made the comment in a radio interview. He was expressing his frustrations as to the handling of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash, which is believed to have been shot down ...
The Truth Behind The Malibu Underwater 'Alien Base'
Post Date: 2014-07-24 23:33:44 by Tatarewicz
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Huff-Post... A little more than 6 miles off the coast of Point Dume in Malibu, California, an unusual-looking structure sits on the sea bed floor. Based on images obtained on Google Earth, the oval-shaped object has a huge flat top and what appear to be pillars or columns that seem to reveal the entrance to a darker, inner place. The anomaly -- for the moment, we'll call it that -- is approximately 2,000 feet below the surface of the water, measuring nearly 3 miles wide. What exactly is this thing? According to the website of a California-based radio program, "Fade to Black," this may be "the Holy Grail of UFO/USO [unidentified submerged objects]" that researchers ...
Dogs can be jealous too: study
Post Date: 2014-07-24 03:45:38 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Dogs can feel jealous if they think you pay more attention to other dogs, a U.S. study said Wednesday. Scientists generally view jealousy as an emotion requiring complex cognition, but some research suggests there may be a more basic form of jealousy, which evolved to protect social bonds from interlopers. Some researchers predict that jealousy might even exist in other social species, like the cognitively sophisticated dog. Since there had been no prior experiments on dog jealousy, researchers from University of California San Diego modified a test used to assess jealousy in six-month-old human infants. Thirty-six dogs were individually tested and ...
Man sues pizzeria for thwarting robbery (TNB Alert!!)
Post Date: 2014-07-23 13:06:17 by X-15
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The first time Nigel Sykes tried to get money from the Seasons Pizza in Newport, he did it with a gun, forcing his way into the business through the back door. This time, Sykes is trying to get money from the pizzeria by suing the employees who tackled him and wrestled his gun away during the robbery. Sykes alleges assault in a federal civil complaint claiming the rough treatment was "unnecessary" and that as a result of the injuries he suffered during his attempted hold-up, he is due over $260,000. Sykes also claims in his suit, filed without an attorney, that after employees subdued him, two Newport police officers improperly used stun guns on him and denied him access to ...
Woman who stopped to save ducklings on highway gets $100 ticket
Post Date: 2014-07-23 08:18:43 by Tatarewicz
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A woman who stopped on a New Hampshire highway to help a group of ducklings whose mother had been struck and killed by a car should've been commended by police for her compassion. Instead, she was given a ticket. Hallie Bibeau, a 33-year-old from Newfields, N.H., was driving east on Route 101 in Brentwood on Friday when she saw the ducklings. "I could hear them peeping, and I looked over ... the right-hand side of the road, and I saw that their mom had been hit and was dead on the side," Bibeau told WMUR-TV. "I couldn't just continue on." Bibeau called 911 and waited for police to arrive. "While I was sitting there, I saw a few of them try to go to the ...
Red Sox ball girl has priceless reaction after fielding Eric Hosmer's fair ball
Post Date: 2014-07-22 17:54:18 by BTP Holdings
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Red Sox ball girl has priceless reaction after fielding Eric Hosmer's fair ball By Mark Townsend July 19, 2014 5:06 PM Big League Stew It was the best and the worst of life as a major league ball girl all wrapped up in one play. On one hand, the ball girl stationed along the right field line at Fenway Park on Friday night got to be part of the action, impressively fielding Kansas City Royals slugger Eric Hosmer's well hit grounder with millions of people watching. On the other hand, she somehow missed the fact that the ball crossed over first base in fair territory, meaning she had just interfered with a live play. Based on her priceless reaction, she seemed at least hopeful ...
The Tree of 40 Fruit Is Exactly as Awesome as It Sounds
Post Date: 2014-07-22 05:08:33 by Tatarewicz
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DcienceAlert... A ward-winning contemporary artist and Syracuse University art professor Sam Van Aken grew up on a family farm in Reading, Pennsylvania, but he spent his college years and much of his early career focused on art rather than agriculture. While Van Aken says that his work has always been "inspired by nature and our relationship to nature," it wasn't until recently that the artist's farming background became such a clear and significant influence, first in 2008 when he grafted vegetables together to create strange plants for his Eden exhibition, and then shortly after that when he started to work on the hybridized fruit trees that would become the Tree of 40 ...
Parking Spots Reserved for Women Spark Outrage in China
Post Date: 2014-07-21 22:56:33 by Tatarewicz
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ABC News...The spots, which are wider than normal spaces, trigger allegations of sexism at one mall in northern China. Outrage over parking in northern China. Look at this this parking spot hated hot peak at about eleven inches wider than usual. This is one of ten that read quote respectfully reserved for lady at a shopping mall in northeastern China. And it is sparking an outcry on social media. Accusations of sexism people asking is meant to imply that women are bad at parking a manager at the -- says that is hardly the case. -- that they just wanted to make parking easier for women. Related Links: Watch: Parking Lot Wars: Go Inside '20/20' Watch: Parking Costs Boston Woman $560 ...
C2C program recaps
Post Date: 2014-07-21 07:42:44 by Tatarewicz
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Adventures in Cosmology: During the middle two hours, professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, Dr. Katherine Freese , discussed her work in theoretical cosmology and the latest developments in our understanding of the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, and the nature of the universe. She argued that searching for answers to these 'big questions' about our world is important on two levels. First, Freese said, it helps to satisfy the basic human curiosity about our surroundings that can be credited with having driven the intellectual evolution of the species. Additionally, she suggested that "accidental discoveries may come out of this research" which could ...
Cyclist says he cheated death twice after switching tickets on doomed Malaysian flights
Post Date: 2014-07-21 03:50:32 by Tatarewicz
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YahooNews... A Dutch cyclist who says he was scheduled to be on both Malaysia Airlines flights MH370 and MH17 — only to switch his tickets at the last minute — knows he's lucky to be alive but has decided to stop speaking publicly about it. Maarten de Jonge, a 29-year-old rider for the Terengganu team in Malaysia, said in a statement on his website that he's been inundated with media requests since tweeting about his fortunate change of plans. "I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of requests," de Jonge said. "What has happened is terrible, so many victims, that's a horrible thing. From reverence for the victims and their families, I do not ...
Where did they go
Post Date: 2014-07-20 19:18:04 by Itistoolate
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Coast to Coast AM Program recaps
Post Date: 2014-07-20 07:27:45 by Tatarewicz
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July 17, 2014 Coast Insider Psychic Experiences: During the first half of Wednesday's show, psychic Linda Salvin , with a PhD in metaphysics and a lifetime of bizarre experiences, detailed her development of psychic gifts, and her work as a healer, reader, and channeler. In 1981, she had her first premonition, correctly sensing that the plane she was about to board had a crack in it. The plane ended up cracking in half, and crash landing at John Wayne Airport, she recounted. As she ran on a field near the plane, she had an OBE, seeing the scene from 50 ft. off the ground as a soft voice spoke to her. Salvin has theorized that traumatic events open up spiritual aspects in the ...
Giant sinkhole in Russia's north puzzles scientists
Post Date: 2014-07-20 05:40:43 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda... Russian scientists conducted a primary examination of the giant sinkhole in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District. The video of the bizarre hole on YouTube has received more than two million views in several days. As a result of the examination, the scientists concluded that the crater was of natural origin and did not appear either as a result of a manmade impact or the fall of a meteorite, the website of the regional government said. There was no dangerous radiation detected on the site of the giant sinkhole. The scientists, who arrived to examine the sinkhole on the instructions of the regional governor Dmitry Kobylkin, said that the sinkhole appeared "as a result of a ...
Death toll rises to 43 in China highway explosion
Post Date: 2014-07-19 21:30:19 by Tatarewicz
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CHINA-HUNAN-HIGHWAY COLLISION (CN) Photo taken on July 19, 2014 shows burnt vehicles after an explosion and fire on a section of the Hukun (Shanghai to Kunming) Expressway in central China's Hunan Province. At least 43 people are confirmed dead in the explosion and fire after a vehicle crash on the highway early Saturday morning. The accident happened at around 3 a.m. Saturday, when a van loaded with flammable liquid, probably alcohol, rear-ended a passenger coach. (Xinhua/Long Hongtao) CHANGSHA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- At least 43 people were killed and another six injured in an explosion and fire after a highway pileup in central China Saturday morning. A van loaded with alcohol ...
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Post Date: 2014-07-17 10:32:34 by X-15
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