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Monday, 18 July 2011
Radiohead - Glastonbury 2011 [Full Concert]
Hey everyone, quiet a surprise to get this up on YouTube so soon after the event. I received a post on my wall on Facebook, July 1st, from my friend Edvardas Sakas regarding James Clarke producing a multi-shot video of Radiohead's Glastonbury 2011 performance, I fired a message to James to see if he would mind if I hosted it, and he was very happy for me to do so. I even provided him a link for the audio to do so when it became available :).
Edited and Created by James Clarke.
http://www.youtube.com/user/JMClarkeProductions
The entire Glastonbury 2011 secret show, with mastered audio and a picture slideshow.
Track Listing
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Lotus Flower
15 Step
Morning Mr Magpie
Little By Little
All I Need
Separator
Give Up The Ghost
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Staircase
I Might Be Wrong
Bloom
Reckoner
The Daily Mail
-- Encore --
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Via
Edited and Created by James Clarke.
http://www.youtube.com/user/JMClarkeProductions
The entire Glastonbury 2011 secret show, with mastered audio and a picture slideshow.
Track Listing
-------------
Lotus Flower
15 Step
Morning Mr Magpie
Little By Little
All I Need
Separator
Give Up The Ghost
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Staircase
I Might Be Wrong
Bloom
Reckoner
The Daily Mail
-- Encore --
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Via
Political Prisoner Watch (At the Movies Edition)
Actress Marzieh Vafamehr, the wife of filmmaker Naser Taghvaei, has reportedly been arrested for her role in the film, My Tehran for Sale. The detention allegedly occurred two weeks ago. The reason for the arrest has not been announced by Vafamehr's family or friends, but it may be connected to her appearance in the film without hijab (head covering). The screening of My Tehran for Sale, directed by Granaz Mousavi, is illegal in Iran.
A trailer for the film:
Via
A trailer for the film:
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Cancer rates jump by 20 per cent among the UK’s middle aged – but why?
We launched our new advertising campaign today. The campaign aims to raise awareness about cancer and the work we do to prevent and treat the disease, and to help raise funds to keep our crucial support flowing to the UK’s best cancer researchers.
You can watch the ad, and hear the stories of the people involved, on our website.
As part of our work behind the scenes for this campaign, we looked in-depth at the latest cancer statistics. One thing we noticed from the mass of data was that cancer rates in middle-aged men and women in Britain have gone up by nearly 20 per cent in a single generation.
To put it another way, more men and women between the ages of 40 and 59 years are hearing the words ‘you have cancer’ than ever before.
That’s not to say that cancer rates haven’t also increased in other age groups – they have.
But while most people are aware that cancer is common in old age, and that it also affects younger people (particularly because of media coverage of celebrities such as Jade Goody and Kylie Minogue), not much attention has been focused on the middle aged.
For this reason, we’ve dedicated this article to lifting the lid on our stats story – in particular, which cancers are driving this jump in incidence rates among the middle-aged?
In 1979, the top three cancers in middle-aged men were lung, bowel and bladder cancers. Whilst bowel cancer has remained the second most common cancer, lung cancer has dropped to third, and prostate cancer has now risen from ninth place to become the most common cancer in middle-aged men.
It may therefore be no surprise that prostate cancer has been the fastest rising cancer in middle-aged men – rates have increased by over 550 per cent since 1979, rising from 7.7 per 100,000 40-59 year old males to 51.0 per 100,000 in 2008. But why?
On their own, the bare statistics don’t explain the reasons for this increase. To understand the trend, you need to know a little bit about how prostate cancer is diagnosed at the moment.
Although there’s no national prostate screening programme in the UK, men can ask their GP to have a PSA test. This is because men with prostate cancer often have higher levels of the PSA protein in their blood.
Unfortunately, men with raised PSA levels don’t always have prostate cancer, while men with lower level sometimes do; and on top of this, PSA tells doctors nothing about whether a tumour will grow quickly enough to cause problems or become life-threatening (Many prostate cancers grow so slowly they wouldn’t cause problems if left untreated).
This means that, since PSA testing was introduced, many more men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer – and are recorded in the official statistics as such – despite not having aggressive disease.
So increasing use of PSA testing is likely to be responsible for a large part of this increase, as men have asked for PSA testing for symptoms of prostate cancer. Just over 3,900 cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in men aged 40-59 in Britain in 2008, compared with around 540 in 1979.
There’s a bigger picture here – a pressing need to discover a better way to test for prostate cancer, in order to diagnose those cancers that are most likely to progress into more advanced, dangerous disease. Thankfully, our scientists are on the case...
You can watch the ad, and hear the stories of the people involved, on our website.
As part of our work behind the scenes for this campaign, we looked in-depth at the latest cancer statistics. One thing we noticed from the mass of data was that cancer rates in middle-aged men and women in Britain have gone up by nearly 20 per cent in a single generation.
To put it another way, more men and women between the ages of 40 and 59 years are hearing the words ‘you have cancer’ than ever before.
Figures are for all cancers among people in Great
Britain aged 40-59 years old (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer)
Britain aged 40-59 years old (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer)
But while most people are aware that cancer is common in old age, and that it also affects younger people (particularly because of media coverage of celebrities such as Jade Goody and Kylie Minogue), not much attention has been focused on the middle aged.
For this reason, we’ve dedicated this article to lifting the lid on our stats story – in particular, which cancers are driving this jump in incidence rates among the middle-aged?
Cancer in middle-aged men
Just because cancer incidence rates in middle-aged people have gone up by nearly 20 per cent in a generation, it doesn’t mean that all cancers are on the rise. Rates of some cancers have increased, while others have fallen. So how has the picture changed?In 1979, the top three cancers in middle-aged men were lung, bowel and bladder cancers. Whilst bowel cancer has remained the second most common cancer, lung cancer has dropped to third, and prostate cancer has now risen from ninth place to become the most common cancer in middle-aged men.
Most commonly diagnosed cancers in men aged 40-59 in 1979 vs 2008 in Great Britain. Incidence rates are age-standardised to the European population. Bowel includes anal cancer.
On their own, the bare statistics don’t explain the reasons for this increase. To understand the trend, you need to know a little bit about how prostate cancer is diagnosed at the moment.
Although there’s no national prostate screening programme in the UK, men can ask their GP to have a PSA test. This is because men with prostate cancer often have higher levels of the PSA protein in their blood.
Unfortunately, men with raised PSA levels don’t always have prostate cancer, while men with lower level sometimes do; and on top of this, PSA tells doctors nothing about whether a tumour will grow quickly enough to cause problems or become life-threatening (Many prostate cancers grow so slowly they wouldn’t cause problems if left untreated).
This means that, since PSA testing was introduced, many more men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer – and are recorded in the official statistics as such – despite not having aggressive disease.
So increasing use of PSA testing is likely to be responsible for a large part of this increase, as men have asked for PSA testing for symptoms of prostate cancer. Just over 3,900 cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in men aged 40-59 in Britain in 2008, compared with around 540 in 1979.
There’s a bigger picture here – a pressing need to discover a better way to test for prostate cancer, in order to diagnose those cancers that are most likely to progress into more advanced, dangerous disease. Thankfully, our scientists are on the case...
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How Paul Stephenson and PM fell out over hacking scandal
The in-flight entertainment will have to be very good to calm his mood.
Aides in Downing Street contacted the prime minister's Virgin plane en route from Heathrow to South Africa just shortly before Sir Paul Stephenson announced he was stepping down as the UK's most senior police officer.
Downing Street aides, who had at one point considered cancelling the trip altogether at the height of the phone-hacking crisis last week, instead decided to cut it back from the planned four days to two.
Cameron – who flew out with 25 business leaders including Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond – will now just visit South Africa and Nigeriaon Tuesday. Plans to visit Rwanda and Sudan have been scrapped.
Time has been found in the diary to allow No 10 aides – and possibly the prime minister – to watch the appearance by Rupert and James Murdoch tomorrow in front of MPs on a parliamentary select committee.
Cameron may also find time to reflect that his attempt last Friday to get a grip of the situation by announcing a judicial inquiry has clearly failed. The number of dead bodies on the stage is beginning to resemble the final scene of a Shakespearian tragedy.
The "firestorm" he himself described is still raging, and as the body count rises in the form of arrests or resignations, he looks increasingly exposed.
Every day as the crisis continues, his judgment, and that of the chancellor, George Osborne, in appointing the former editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson as his director of communications looks increasingly inexplicable.
It cannot help that the leader of the opposition, previously a politically ponderous flea of no consequence, has suddenly morphed into a fast-moving deadly bee.
Ed Miliband will be back on the attack, framing the crisis in terms of his call for a new responsibility agenda in which the old status quo is over.
The problems Cameron faces come from all directions. First, he appears to be facing the thinly-disguised wrath of a Met commissioner angry that he is being accused of an improperly contractual relationship with Neil Wallis, a former News of the World deputy editor, when the prime minister arguably insisted on an even less appropriate relationship with Coulson.
Moreover, Stephenson was implying, possibly for self-serving reasons, that he could not impart operational information to Cameron since he was too compromised with the chief suspects.
Secondly there is no evidence that the Conservative party either in the Home Office or in the London mayoralty of Boris Johnson took seriously the suggestion, repeatedly raised by Labour, that the connections between News International and the Met were unhealthy.
Theresa May, the home secretary and a woman of principle, who is to make a statement to the Commons today about the relationship between the Metropolitan police and Chamy Media, Neil Wallis's PR firm, repeatedly said it was an operational matter for the police to decide whether fresh evidence had emerged, and left it to them to say there was none.
Thirdly, the record of meetings between Cameron and News International executives released on Friday does not reveal a modernising prime minister governing in the national interest, but a victim of a vested interest. His meetings with News International executives in a year exceed those with all other news organisations put together. Not a single figure from the BBC was granted an audience. It is one of those assemblages of small facts that change the way a public figure is viewed.
Finally, he is trying to manage the implosion of a political alliance that brought him to power, including the support of News International. He cannot know what divisions, angry recriminations and betrayals will occur in the next year as the causes of the crisis are examined, and individual personalities, facing jail, seek to save their reputations.
Cameron's visit to the two largest economies in sub-Saharan Africa – to try to highlight the importance of creating a free trade area in Africa - is not the first time that he has chosen to embark on a foreign excursion at an inopportune time.
Labour ridiculed him while, as opposition leader in the summer of 2007, he was in east Africa at the same time as parts of his Oxfordshire constituency and other parts of the UK were under water. In February of this year, as popular uprisings placed a spotlight on the lack of democracy across the Arab world, Cameron was to be found banging the drum for British arm sales at the head of at trade delegation to the Gulf states. Last night, explaining why the African trip was not called off, a Cameron aide said: "This trip is very important. We are improving economic links with South Africa. It's important that we continue to do that."
The prime minister – who will bring a message that an African free trade area could increase GDP across the continent by more than it currently receives in aid – will fly home early to finalise the terms and membership of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into the media. But that message is likely to be overshadowed by Stephenson and the arrest yesterday of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, who entertained the prime minister at her Oxfordshire home over the Christmas period.
The prime minister will fly home late allow him to finalise the arrangements for Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry in four areas.
Just hours before Stephenson's resignation, Clegg, told the BBC that a growing public perception of police corruption was deeply concerning. "I'm incredibly worried about that … The fact that the public, their cynicism in politicians or the press might have deepened is perhaps not entirely surprising. I think when the public starts losing faith in the police, it's altogether much more serious and you know you really are in some trouble."
Announcing his resignation, Stephenson admitted he was doing so because of the speculation relating to the Met's links with News International, but also "in particular in relation to Neil Wallis".
The Guardian was preparing to publish a story about how Scotland Yard chiefs invited Wallis to apply for a senior communications post with the force, in a decision which Stephenson was aware of.
Stephenson dated his relationship to Wallis back to 2006, a meeting that took place in the context of the latter's work as a journalist. From October 2009 to September 2010, Wallis's part-time work at the Met involved strategic communications, advising the commissioner and assistant commissioner, John Yates, as the force said there was no need to reopen the investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World.
The Guardian understands Wallis was approached to apply for the two-day-a-month contract with the Met after discussions which involved the most senior figures in the force.
Patrick Wintour, Nicholas Watt and Vikram Dodd @'The Guardian'
Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson: resignation statement
Deciphered - the Met commissioner's resignation statement
OwenJones84 Owen Jones
If the Met are susceptible to bribes from News International, why wouldn't they take bribes from others? We need an inquiry into the Met
If the Met are susceptible to bribes from News International, why wouldn't they take bribes from others? We need an inquiry into the Met
WikiLeaks classified as "extremist web site" by National Library of Australia and US Library of Congress
UPDATE (12:30PM):
nlagovau National Library Aus
Categorisation of Wikileaks in our catalogue records has been updated. We thank everyone for their comments.
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Tables turn on Murdoch as scandal rocks his empire
He may own the ball but I AM NOT picking him for my team...
Nels Cline & Bill Frisell - Live Improvisation @ Henry Miller Memorial Library September 2008
This live improvisation by Nels Cline and Bill Frisell was performed at the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, California in September 2008. This footage was shot for "The Reach Of Resonance," a feature documentary by Steve Elkins, but none of it was used in the film.
reachofresonance.com
nelscline.com
Annihilate an Entire Species of Fish, and Other Easy Ways to Really Mess Things Up
First we'll take menhaden, then we'll take bluefin. So, there's this company called Omega Protein, and it seems intent on catching as much as it possibly can of an obscure, tiny, practically inedible fish called the Atlantic menhaden.
From Omega Protein's perspective, hoovering up menhaden like they're dust bunnies is a great idea. The company's entire business model hinges on transforming the oily fish into everything from livestock feed to omega-3 pills for people. In fact, it owns a monopoly on Atlantic menhaden fishing and processing—and has been doing just that for years. The stock market values Omega Protein at a cool quarter-billion dollars.
For the health of the ecosystem along the East Coast, though, declaring open season on the menhaden really, really sucks, as Alison Fairbrother and Randy Fertel say in their recent Gilt Taste piece, "The Most Important Fish in the Sea." All along the eastern shore, menhaden have entered a phase of calamitous decline. Stocks have plunged 88 percent in the past quarter century, the authors report. As Omega Protein sucks them out of the ocean, things are getting quite out-of-whack down below. Fairbrother and Fertel explain:
[T]heir nutrient-packed bodies are a staple food for dozens of fish species you have heard of, as well as marine mammals and sea birds. Located near the bottom of the food chain, menhaden are the favored prey for many important predators, including striped bass and bluefish, tuna and dolphin, seatrout and mackerel.And that's not all. "Menhaden are filter feeders, swimming with their mouths open and straining phytoplankton (algae) and other particles with their gills," Fairbrother and Fertel report. The little fish "have been removing damaging particles from our waters since time immemorial."
Thus menhaden have what I call ecological leverage. That is, if you fish them into oblivion, you're not just destroying a single species; you're also threatening to unleash a cascading set of effects that could lead to full-on ecosystem collapse. Other examples of ecological leverage include coral reefs, which act as engines of oceanic biodiversity but are under attack from a variety of forces, and tropical rainforests, which teem with biodiversity, too, and also help stabilize global climate by trapping vast amounts of carbon. We mess with ecological leverage at our peril...
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Tom Philpott @'Mother Jones'
Note: The Bush family has majority shares in Omega Protein, initially through Zapata Corporation which became Harbinger Group Inc..
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Sunday, 17 July 2011
Rebekah Brooks arrested over phone-hacking allegations
Here's footage of her in 2003 admitting to paying the police...
alexmassie alexmassie
The Met do Rebekah Brooks one last favour:arresting her today means every answer on Tuesday will be "Sorry, but ongoing police matter...etc"
Breaking: Rebekah Brooks arrested!!!
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