Thursday, 8 April 2010

Upheaval in Kyrgyzstan Could Imperil Key U.S. Base

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Imaginary subway maps


Based on the London Underground map design by Harry Beck
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Getting a fix

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'Old Woman in a Casket'

Photo by Dezo Hoffmann
'Scream Thy Last Scream' and 'Vegetable Man' were recorded in early August 1967 for possible release as  Pink Floyd's third single. There had even been a press announcement on 25 July tipping this song (under the title Old Woman in a Casket) for release as the next single. However, Scream Thy Last Scream and Vegetable Man were thought to be too inaccessible and unsuited to public consumption to release.
 'Scream Thy Last Scream' 
(Mono/Stereo/Alternate Mono mixes)
'Vegetable Man'
(Mono/Stereo mixes)

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Latest from Kyrgyzstan Uprising

Reports have now emerged that Kyrgyz opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva intends to stay in power and lead an interim government for six months which will write up a new constitution for the county. This could not be confirmed immediately by all sources. In the morning after protesters ousted the government in Bishkek and took over government buildings, the city is still reeling from the looting done the day before. (See pictures below)
However, no reports of new violence from the capital have emerged. Some Kyrgyz netizens reported that the situation was relatively calm and that some people had even gone to work. The opposition earlier declared that they have appointed new ministers of interior and defense and were working to restore calm in the capital.



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How To Ruin Your Co-Worker’s Reputation

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Same as it ever was...

All the usual bullshit really...
The only bit of good news was ManU getting knocked out!
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Wanna see a Taiwanese boy with a bowl cut cover Whitney Houston? Yes you do

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117 will soon need a name!

I'd propose Audiozobium, but for some reason, I get the impression this would not be well received. But how about Iggypopium? Or even better, Ziggystardustium? Wouldn't that be cool?

A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive elements with chemical properties no one can predict.

The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium in a particle accelerator about 75 miles north of Moscow on the Volga River, according to a paper to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters. The superheavy element 117, which is made of atoms containing 117 protons, is roughly 40% heavier than lead.
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Element 117 fills the final gap on the list of observed elements up to 118. If the latest discovery is confirmed elsewhere, the element will receive an official name and take its place in the periodic table of the elements. For the moment, the discovery will be known as ununseptium, a very unwhimsical Latinate placeholder that refers to the element’s atomic number, 117. 
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Catholic Bishop: Children Want to Be Sexually Abused


The Bishop of Tenerife provided an interesting explanation for the vast numbers of children raped by Catholic priests: They asked for it. In 2007, when the American Catholic Church was reeling from sex abuse scandals but not so much Europe, the Bishop of Tenerife, Bernardo Álvarez, made some interesting Christmas holiday comments.
In a Christmas Eve interview with La Opinión de Tenerife, Bishop Alvarez said that there are children who want to be abused:
There are 13 year old adolescents who are under age and who are perfectly in agreement with, and what’s more wanting it, and if you are careless they will even provoke you.
That’s right, the rapists aren’t the priests. It’s those seductive tempters and temptresses, fresh-faced whores all, bending over in front of priests, flaunting their taut, young, moist flesh, just begging to be used as the sexual playthings of perverted pedophiles (and hebephiles) who have sworn to their imaginary friend that they will be celibate for life.
It’s probably their plan to sue later and retire on the Catholic Cult’s ill-gotten loot. After all, so many seem to be doing it!
Bishop Alvarez got some bad press shortly thereafter:
The controversial comments drew immediate criticism, including from the Spanish government, which hinted that it might review its relations with the Church unless action was taken against the Tenerife Bishop. Gay rights groups and child welfare associations called on the authorities to prosecute the Bishop for inciting and defending abuse of minors, while left-wing political parties demanded that the Pope sack Alvarez immediately.
In 2008, the Spanish Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGT) filed a criminal complaint against him for “identifying homosexuality with the sexual abuse of minors” and for “promoting an attitude of violence and discrimination” against homosexuals:
“It seems that he is justifying the abuse of minors, coming from an institution that has been condemned the most times in the world for sexual abuse,” said [FELGT president Antonio] Poveda. “It is necessary for the hierarchy to be respectful and to know that as citizens they have freedom of expression, but they also have to respect the standards that are set by the laws in this country and in this case they have passed that boundary, therefore we hope that the Attorney General will intervene to prevent such lamentable declarations from being made again.”
Despite the outcry at the time, it appears to have been a flash in the pan. The most recent story on Bishop Alvarez? The 2009 reopening of the Bishop’s Palace in La Laguna, damaged by fire in 2006.
La Laguna – 11.07.2009 – Before blessing the building, the Bishop of Ten­erife, Bernardo Álvarez, summed up his feelings in just two words, “satisfaction and thanks”. Satisfac­tion with the work done, and thanks to the thou­sands of people, institu­tions, companies, parishes and many more, “without whose support and soli­darity it would not have been possible to complete the work”.
Seems Alvarez is still Bishop, and likely still blaming children for being raped. Perhaps the Vatican will hire him as Benedict’s new PR agent!
Jenny Donati @'Paliban Daily'
(Thanx Michael!)
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I do NOT freebase cocaine


(Thanx SJX!)
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The Bias of Veteran Journalists

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The Aliens@home!

Look, ma: no oxygen! (The image is a distant cousin, not the newly discovered sea critters.)


Deep under the Mediterranean Sea small animals have been discovered that live their entire lives without oxygen and surrounded by 'poisonous' sulphides. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology report the existence of multicellular organisms (new members of the group Loricifera), showing that they are alive, metabolically active, and apparently reproducing in spite of a complete absence of oxygen.
@'ScienceBlogs'

Update:


Here is a pic of the anaerobic organism
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