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Hopkins Deli owners buy, reopen Kolpers
For years, Lucky and Veronika Singh wanted to open a nice, clean sports bar with really good food.
Several months ago, the Singhs, who own Hopkins Deli, finally found what they thought would be the perfect space: Kolpers.
It wasn't until after they signed the contract that they found out about the double stabbing (which resulted in one death) which occurred there in March.
"I was thinking, 'Oh my gosh, oh no, what did I get myself into?'" Veronika Singh said.
"Needless to say, we don't want anything of this nature happening with us." ...
The Singhs installed a new hardwood floor in the dining room. They also brought in a decent draft list, which includes Sierra Nevada, Magic Hat, Flying Dog and more.
The best part? Kolpers now has das boot. Filling up das boot costs between $10 and $15, depending on the brew. And if you drink it super fast without spilling any on yourself, the Singhs might let you take home the boot.
Here is a link to the new Kolpers Web site.
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Hailed as a "Children's musical star" (National Post) and "Canada's greatest eco-troubadour for young people" (Mississauga Arts Centre), 2009 JUNO Award nominee (Canada's Grammy's) Chris McKhool is Canada's hottest musician for young people. McKhool has been touring across Canada with his children's concerts for fifteen years, reaching 1 million children, and has appeared on Mr. Dressup, YTV's Treehouse, and the CBC.
McKhool brings his love of violin to young audiences and tours his "FiddleFire!" concert for children in festivals, concert halls and schools across North America, getting families dancing, clapping, and singing songs from his award winning CD. Kids and their parents' scat-sing become a rhythm section and join him on stage to play rare percussion instruments from around the world along with folk, jazz, blues, funk, world beat, and East Coast fiddling rhythms. Closer to home McKhool has performed at the Skydome/Rogers Centre and virtually all the folk and jazz festivals in Ontario. His 2009 JUNO Award nominated "FiddleFire!" CD won the 2009 Canadian Folk Music Award for Children's Album of the Year, a 2009 Parents' Choice Award, a 2009 iParenting Media Award and was picked for the 2009 Canadian Children's Book Centre 'Best of 2009'.
A champion of environmental issues, McKhool created the world's largest bicycle bell orchestra in 2008, at Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto with over 800 bell ringers! He also won the Green Toronto Award of Excellence and the Environment Canada Action Award for his work in schools and communities across Canada with his CD and concert "Earth, Seas & Air". He has also won a Parents' Choice Award in the U.S. for his CD of the same name, produced by Ken Whiteley (Raffi). He has been the recipient of Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, FACTOR and PromoFact Awards.
Chris McKhool also plays violin for adult audiences, and tours with his original 2010 JUNO-nominated World-Jazz-Flamenco band Sultans of String in concert halls, jazz and folk festivals around the world. Their debut CD Luna hit #1 across Canada on Top Ten national radio charts in the "International" & "World/Folk" categories. Their brand new CD "Yalla Yalla!" is taking the world music scene by storm, winning the 2009 Canadian Folk Music Award for Instrumental Group of the Year.
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Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman is saying whoa to #44's recent comments that corporations accepting bailout money shouldn't be seen living it up at flashy conferences in places like Sin City.
Tourism business is already down in Vegas and officials there are concerned that the president's message will do nothing to improve it.
Tough. President Obama didn't suggest that all businesses forego travel to Vegas, just those who will be benefiting from some of the $800 billion in bailout money.
If not Vegas, may I humbly nominate places like Hartford, CT. The world's best casinos are only 40 minutes a way.
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You were so excited. Deadline reported late on Friday that development would begin on the sequel to the 1996 animated/live-action "Looney Tunes"-centered hit "Space Jam" as a starring vehicle for Miami Heat star LeBron James. But ESPN writer threw cold water on the report the same evening. See the tweet below.
While the animated toon is well-remembered and perhaps adored by anyone who didn't grow up with "Looney Tunes" during the Mel Blanc era, "Space Jam" didn't even break $100 million domestically during the day and only grossed $230 million in 1996 worldwide. Adjusted for inflation, that's $343.5 million in 2014 dollars, but it's still a far cry from a major hit when you consider the $100+ million budgets, P&A and the grosses of major animated family fare these days.


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Best 50mm lens for your camera: 8 'Nifty Fifty' lenses tested and rated
Image quality comparison
Find out how each of the 50mm lenses in this test compare in terms of sharpness, fringing and distortion. Click the infographic below to see the larger version.
SEE MORE: What is chromatic aberration: free cheat sheet
Best 50mm lens: Verdict
Comparing all the lenses in the group, the Nikon 50mm f/1.4 stands out by maintaining excellent sharpness and contrast throughout its entire aperture range. Colour fringing is extremely well controlled and there's little distortion.
Handling and build quality are very good and it's sensibly priced at £290, making it an outright winner.
Nikon's f/1.8 lens is only about half the price, yet has most of the same advanced features and refined handling, and still manages to give superb image quality. It's unbeatable value.
The Canon lenses lag a little behind Nikon's offerings. The f/1.4 is lacking in sharpness, especially at its widest aperture, although barrel distortion is marginally better controlled.
The Canon f/1.8 is quite basic in terms of features and build quality, although it's inexpensive at just £79. The Pentax 50mm f/1.8 delivers superior image quality and is well engineered, but its feature set is basic, especially as it costs £220.
The Sigma is the only independent lens here. It's larger and heavier than competing f/1.4 lenses, but gives very little darkening of image corners, even at its widest aperture. Unfortunately, sharpness is underwhelming at f/1.4.
The Sony lenses are comparatively tiny but peripheral illumination is quite poor.
The Winner: Nikon AF-S 50mm f/1.4G
What's good: Superb image quality, build and handling at a sensible price.
What's bad: Not the greatest when it comes to controlling barrel distortion.
Our verdict: It's the best all-round lens in the group and very good value.
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Circling, block after block, looking for a parking spot is a fact of life for urban drivers everywhere — but it doesn't have to be. Smart parking startup Streetline [2] has produced the Parker mobile app [3] that will save you the hassle and tell you when parking spaces are available. The app promises to make parking much more efficient, saving drivers the headache of searching for parking, and preventing unnecessary pollution caused by circling. Streetline recently teamed up with communications giant Cisco [4] to launch a pilot program in two towns in the San Francisco Bay Area — San Carlos and San Mateo — to test the technology.
About 135 sensors were planted in the pavement in downtown San Mateo, and 100 were embedded in San Carlos, sending a signal to Streetline's free Parker mobile app when parking becomes available. The program can be used for street parking, parking lots and indoor garages. Using Cisco's smart reuters and Wi-Fi mesh networks, the sensor data is aggregated and transmitted to the Streetline data center, which publishes the information on the Parker app. According to a press release, the data will soon be made available for general web browsers as well. Streetline has already deployed the app in at least 25 cities, but this is the company's first partnership with Cisco.
In cities across the country, people hunting for parking account for nearly one-third of the cars on the road. Cisco and Streetline hope that the new deployment will help ease congestion in downtown areas where parking is in high demand. "Using the intelligence of the network as a way to connect what were previously unconnected areas opens up a number of new service opportunities for developing smarter communities," said Cisco's Wim Elfrink in a statement [6].
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Stanton J. Shelton of Doylestown passed away Friday, April 18, 2014, at his home. He was 83.
Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of the late T. Stanton and Madeleine Dwyer Shelton.
Stanton served as a first lieutenant in the U.St. Marine Corps, during the Korean War.
He was a former officer of the Germantown Cricket Club, and a member of the Doylestown Country Club.
He is survived by his sister, Jeanne Crouch and her husband, Thomas; his sister-in-law, Rosalie Shelton, and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
Relatives and friends are invited to his funeral Mass at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 26, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 235 East State St., Doylestown, where friends may call at 10 a.m. Interment will follow in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham.
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No one injured in gas explosion
Friday, March 18, 2011
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A major natural gas line exploded Thursday outside a large Minneapolis supermarket, spewing flames skyward just 100 yards from a busy freeway and snarling rush-hour traffic but injuring nobody in what fire officials called an amazing stroke of luck.
The blast and fire scorched parked vehicles and opened a large hole in the street near the entrance to a Cub Foods store. Homes and businesses in an eight-block area surrounding the fire were evacuated for several hours, and Assistant Fire Chief Cherie Penn said the outcome might have been might worse.
"That's phenomenal!" she said hours after the blast about how no one was hurt. "That is. Wow!"
Streams of people, some in pajamas carrying children, walked away from the scene shortly after the midmorning explosion. They were allowed to return home by midday.
The explosion happened so close to the interchange of Interstate 35W and Highway 62 that the highways were closed for several hours until the gas line was shut off at about 10:30 a.m. One section of the interstate remained closed longer as it was inspected for damage before being pronounced safe.
Cars in the parking lot were scorched in the blast, some leaning because both tires on one side had melted. Melted red plastic hung from the Cub Foods sign.
It was a major trunk gas line for that section of Minneapolis, and state pipeline safety officials were on the scene, according to Rebecca Virden, a spokeswoman for CenterPoint Energy. She said it was too early to determine the cause.
Len Slade said he was in the grocery's doorway when the explosion happened across the street from the parking lot. He said he saw what appeared to be black liquid spewing from the ground before the flames appeared. A Minnesota Department of Transportation spokesman said later it was dirty water from a storm sewer line.
"It looked like when you see an oil well bubble up out of the ground, like when they strike oil," Slade said.
He said the explosion was muffled. He said he tried to get to his car in the parking lot, but had to retreat into the building because the heat was so intense.
"You could feel the heat coming through the front door," he said.
Slade, a vice president with Jerry's Enterprises, which operates the store, said customers and employees were evacuated soon after.
An apartment complex, day care and church near the scene were evacuated, and people inside the grocery store were told to leave through the back. A grade school was evacuated and students were sent to another school, one of three Minneapolis public schools that were put on lockdown. School officials planned to keep students indoors for the rest of the day.
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If they know him at all, most Seattleites know Brad Keller as the uncannily effective lawyer who represented Clay Bennett and his People's Basketball Club (PBC, owners of the franchise formerly known as the Seattle SuperSonics) in their lawsuit with the city of Seattle. He's the guy who embarrassed witnesses and opposing counsel alike, helping his clients reach a settlement that achieved their goal of moving the team to Oklahoma City. In so doing, he provoked the ire of many Sonics fans, to the extent that angry e-mails and phone calls to his home and office led him to hire armed security for both locations.
What most people probably don't know is that Keller was a 20-year Sonics season-ticket holder who, in the 1990s, twice donated to the re-election campaigns of the opposing counsel in the Sonics case, then-Senator Slade Gorton. Keller speaks freely of his admiration for Gorton's work in public office, and professes "enormous loyalty to this city. I took no delight in showing that these highly regarded people had done things that were troublesome."
His professed joylessness notwithstanding, Keller represented the PBC with humor and skill that won him a grudging respect. (After attending the trial, Weekly blog contributor and Save Our Sonics fellow traveler Jason Reid used several expletives to describe Keller's courtroom performance before declaring flatly "I'd hire him.") Keller concluded his case with perhaps the trial's most memorable exhibit, a diagram of Slade Gorton's brain, split hemispherically between "City Litigation Lawyers" and "Griffin Group's Lawyers." The graphic elicited laughter from Judge Marsha Pechman and pithily summarized Keller's argument that Gorton and the city were guilty of double-dealing—professing good faith in their negotiations with the team while working behind the scenes to weaken its financial standing and arrange a sale to local owners.
But Keller seems most fond of his cross-examination of Mayor Greg Nickels, in which he exposed the contradictions between Nickels' deposition and courtroom testimony and made the mayor look like a boastful kid unaware that his Easter-egg hunt had been moved to a minefield, the second coming of Augustus Gloop. "I thoroughly enjoyed it," says Keller. "I felt that Nickels was using this lawsuit and this issue as a bit of a political pulpit."
Keller—who has represented other unpopular clients such as Big Tobacco, a manufacturer of allegedly defective medical devices, and, on a pro-bono basis, an accused child molester—thinks Nickels' background in politics left him ill-prepared for the witness stand. "He's used to dealing with press conferences, where he's gonna stay on message and give one or two answers, even if they're not responsive to the question. You can't do that in the courtroom."—Damon Agnos


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Oil Prices Likely to Keep on Falling, Says IEA
The recent dramatic fall in the price of oil shows no signs of ending, says the IEA, citing weak demand, a strong dollar and booming U.S. production.
The recent dramatic fall in the price of oil shows no signs of ending, says the IEA, citing weak demand, a strong dollar and booming U.S. production.
Regulators fined five major banks $3.4 billion for conspiring to manipulate foreign currencies, which pushed their stocks down and ended a run of records.
Stocks cascaded to their worst slump in two years in October, but the market has rebounded and the Dow and S&P 500 closed at record highs Friday.
Investors rallied behind an encouraging report on the Chinese economy as well as strong quarterly results, giving the S&P 500 its best day of the year.
Investors avoided another roller coaster day Friday. Instead, they got a steady decline that left the market with its worst weekly showing since May 2012.
Just a day after the market had its best day of 2014, it had its worst. The Dow plunged 334 points as fear about the global economy sent investors fleeing.
A suddenly stormy month on the stock market came to a quiet end on Tuesday. Major indexes drifted to a slight loss, leaving the S&P 500 down for September.
The stock market rose Tuesday as investors waited to find out when the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates.
A sluggish month continued for stocks as investors assessed the outlook for interest rates, the latest sanctions against Russia and volatile energy prices.
A retreat in oil and energy stocks pulled the rest of the U.S. stock market mostly lower Monday.
As the relief that greeted reports of a possible cease fire in Ukraine faded, a slide in Apple and other tech stocks tugged the market to a small loss.
Concerns over weaker global economic growth appeared to outweigh a pair of strong reports on the U.S. economy Tuesday, nudging stocks to a tiny loss.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index delivered its fourth record high in five days Friday, ending with the biggest monthly gain since February.
Concerns about slowing global growth and the threat of rising tensions between Russia and the West pushed stocks lower on Thursday.
Oil prices fell as much as $2 a barrel Friday as doubts grew about whether political leaders in Washington could reach a deal on the fiscal cliff before the new year.
The price of gasoline fell Tuesday after Hurricane Sandy left a wide swath of flooding, power outages and disrupted transportation in the eastern U.S.
The price of oil rose more than 3 percent Tuesday on concerns about supplies from the Middle East and the North Sea.
Most commodities rallied in the third quarter, but can they hold on to their advance? Read on, and find out which ones still have legs to dance their way higher, and which are poised to take a tumble. The short answer to that from analysts is that gold and oil are likely to advance, while grains and sugar are among those that probably won't, but there will be a lot of different factors to consider.
The price of oil is climbing on reports that U.S. factories have cranked into a higher gear. Benchmark U.S. crude increased Monday by $1.07 to $104.09 per barrel in New York while Brent crude rose by 68 cents to $123.56 per barrel in London.
Oil prices rose slightly to near $106 a barrel Friday in Asia after the U.S. denied reports it and Britain plan to release some their strategic crude reserves. Benchmark oil for April delivery was up 40 cents to $105.51 at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 32 cents to settle at $105.11 per barrel in New York on Thursday. Brent crude for May delivery was up 55 cents at $123.15 per barrel in London.
During most of June, Western Refining followed the rest of the market down, dipping as much as 16.5%. However, its shares have since perked up -- and they have much farther to rise. The refiner is in a prime position to take advantage of a wide spread between the price of crude oil and gasoline.
The theme for Thursday is big players adjusting to a changing world: Citigroup is shutting down a major hedge fund it used for soon-to-be-banned proprietary trading, Goldman has been subpoenaed over its role in the subprime mortgage crisis, and OPEC is thinking that it might need to pump more oil.
Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said his country cut oil production in March because the market was oversupplied. Was this move an honest bid to a bid to expose the speculators and push prices back down, or an attempt to capitalize on the current instability to propel prices higher?
Americans could see gasoline spiking 10% to 18% higher in coming weeks as a result of the unrest in the Middle East, but they're unlikely go above $4 a gallon -- unless the uprisings spread to Saudi Arabia. In that case, all bets are off.
Even though no reports of supply disruptions have surface, Brent crude hit $100 a barrel in London trading, while U.S. prices hovered near $90. Europe is more vulnerable because much of its crude flows through the Suez Canal and adjacent pipelines.


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The UK's "Press Awards" are not nicknamed the "Hackademy Awards" for nothing, especially in the case of Brian Deer. He has been given not one, but two such awards. The claim, made by Brian Deer, that the UK Press Awards are like the Pulitzer Prize is laughable and absurd.
The UK's Society of Editors runs the Press Awards. Sitting on the Editors' advisory council is Les Hinton, who recently resigned as CEO of Dow Jones in the wake of the Murdoch phone hacking scandal. Also on that committee is Rebekah Brooks, who resigned as senior executive of News International - which publishes The Sunday Times - and was then arrested.
For over a decade, Brian Deer's only award was based on a faulty premise. It was called "Specialist Reporter of the year." The judges said Deer was "the only journalist in Britain that polices the drug companies." However, during the year for which he won his award, 1998, Brian Deer wrote an article alleging that patients who suffered neurological injury from the DTP vaccine were not really injured and should therefore not have received legal compensation for their injuries. That is the exact opposite of "policing" the drug companies, but is instead harrassing the victims of defective drug company products. In 2004, Glenn Frankel reported in the Washington Post that one of Brian Deer's specialties "was tracking down false claims of damage from vaccines."
Weeks after the bogus premise behind his first award was reported on Age of Autism, Brian Deer was nominated for "News Reporter of the Year" and also for "Specialist Reporter of the year," the latter of which he won at the ceremony in London's Savoy Hotel on April 5th, 2011. That award was given to Deer for his smear campaign against Dr. Andrew Wakefield.
The measure of any great or even good journalist must be his independence. Journalism awards are supposed to be based on independent assessments of reporters' work, otherwise they are meaningless. Furthermore, it seems too perfect that Brian Deer was nominated for a Press Award (that he would later win) mere weeks after Age of Autism revealed he had only won one award.
How surprising can this really be given that the Academy of Judges for this year's awards ceremony included Richard Caseby, managing editor of The Sunday Times? Caseby became notorious for his exchange with Rosemary Kessick – one of the few parents of the Lancet 12 children that Brian Deer actually interviewed.
Following a 6-hour interrogation of Kessick by Deer in 2003, during which he falsely gave his name as "Brian Lawrence," she complained to The Sunday Times executive editor John Witherow. The exchange is detailed by Dan Olmsted in his article, An Elaborate Fraud, Part 2: In Which a Murdoch Newspaper's Deceptive Tactics Infect the British Medical Journal.
Unfortunately, Kessick might as well have been complaining to GlaxoSmithKline, the board of which has retained News International boss, James Murdoch, since 2009. John Witherow recently wrote in a self-congratulatory piece about The Sunday Times' investigative journalism on July 17th:
There have, of course, been many other investigations, including Brian Deer's outstanding work on exposing the doctor behind the false MMR scare.
This sentence exposes a clear desire to try and shift the arguments off the ground of the Sunday Times and GSK and into a more general arena so showing that what happened to Wakefield was a result of universal investigating and popular will. In fact one of the most staggering things about the Wakefield case was that Deer carried sole responsibility for it prior to lodging it with the GMC; no other investigative journalist in the world uncovered or wrote anything original critical of Wakefield besides Deer.
Instead of Witherow responding to Kessick's complaint, Richard Caseby wrote back:
Dear Ms Kessick,
Your email to the editor has been passed to me as managing editor so that I may investigate it. Once I have spoken to those involved I will be in contact next week.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Caseby, managing editor, The Sunday Times
This promise, however, was never met. Fed up after writing Caseby multiple reminders, she wrote The Sunday Times lawyer, Alistair Brett, who would not comment on any of Kessick's letters. He did, however, make the following assurance:
"…there is no intention to include you in anything we decide to publish on MMR."
Yet another promise was not met. In Brian Deer's 2009 Sunday Times article, he wrote he had cooperation from parents and mentioned his interview with Kessick. Exact quotes from Deer's interview for The Sunday Times with Kessick would later be published in the British Medical Journal in January of 2011.
Richard Caseby's embroilment in controversy does not stop with Brian Deer but also involves Paul Nuki, the conflicted Sunday Times "Focus" editor who assigned Deer to "find something big" on MMR. Nuki's father Professor George Nuki sat on the Committee on Safety of Medicines while it was considering approval for the MMR vaccine that would later be banned for causing meningitis. Also on that committee was Professor Sir David Hull, who along with other committee members would ultimately approve the vaccine knowing it was dangerous as it had already been withdrawn in Canada. A decade later in 1998, as chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, Hull would be the first to accuse Dr. Wakefield of the "ethical" charges Brian Deer complained to the GMC about in 2004.
Richard Caseby and Paul Nuki were previously under fire in 2000 for publishing the confidential financial information of an English Lord, allegedly obtained by The Sunday Times through impersonators. Brian Deer is now facing parliamentary scrutiny for the acquisition of confidential medical records he obtained while working on the MMR project he was assigned by Nuki.
On the January 6, 2011 BMJ blog written by Brian Deer concerning his charges of fraud against Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Paul Nuki commented shortly before Deer's award nominations:
Brilliant, Brian.... proof positive that investigative journalism of the highest standards lives on. Well done.
On his own personal online shrine, Brian Deer lauds his alter ego in the third person:
"…on 5 April 2011, Deer's personal journey found closure when he was named specialist journalist of the year in the British newspaper industry's annual Pulitzer-style Press Awards. Judges for the Society of Editors praised what they called his 'outstanding perseverance, stamina and revelation on a story of major importance'. They said of his investigation: 'It was a tremendous righting of a wrong'."
What "wrong" was that, you might ask? Certainly not the vaccine damage to children that Brian Deer has energetically, with considerable stamina and perseverance, swept under the wall-to-wall carpet of corruption in British media.
Let's hope the tremendous righting of Brian Deer's wrong happens soon.
Jake Crosby has Asperger Syndrome and is a contributing editor to Age of Autism. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a BA in both History and Health: Science, Society and Policy. In August, he will attend The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services where he will study for an MPH in epidemiology.
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Mr Deer has still to collect the 2nd part of the award, his jail sentence ...The Press Awads(as in cash wads) are becoming somewhat a poisoned chalice as Mr Desbourough is finding out..larf larf larf
"So when will Brian Lawrence receive his award?"
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Also check out this website about Merck and Vioxx
Deer won`t be publishing his ill-gotten toxic lies in The Times anymore….great pdf`s to read stark similarities can be seen with the Deer agenda
"Let's hope the tremendous righting of Brian Deer's wrong happens soon." HERE! HERE!
Vioxx Investigation ???
"In this Sunday Times investigation, Brian Deer asks: who knew what... and when?" August 2005
Well apparently a lot of other people knew what and when and were reporting this long before Deer's
Even as far away as the Antipodes Vioxx was investigated and bought to the attention of the general public in Australia by ABC flagship current affairs programme "Four Corners".
April 2005
ABC Radio National
Jeremy Laurence Health Editor at the Independent was reporting on Vioxx in January 2005
Investigation or Regurgitation ?
Wouldn`t it be nice if a Newspaper from the dis-united UK, could write a FOI to the Met requesting the same on behalf of the Autism families as below sent by the New York Times
Jenny Allan the 2010 BPA Sponsors can be seen below nothing for 2011..
I would love to send a dustpan, a broom and some old carpet
for mr.brian lawrance deer.He did the job he was hired for
and now gets an award.He needs to tell us how he could sit at the hearing without getting paid?Who brought this man in?
He is a non-medical journalist, how does he know how chronic entero-colitis look like?How can he make diagnosis when he is not a dctor? How did he know the name of the patients? How did he know the patient's parents address?
How did he access confidential and private protected information?Who is paying him if Sunday Times and Channel 4 are not paying?What is he doing at a Pharma conference in
Baltimore in November,2010?You can mislead some,but we know
who you are mr.lawrence brian deer...
Thanks, Jake! I somehow completely failed to develop anything like the following perspectives on the writings of Brian Deer: 1) that Deer is "the only journalist in Britain that polices the drug companies," and 2) that Deer is "a journalist who writes primarily about science" (from the link posted by Jenny Allen).
Hello John!
Yes I did notice the reference to 'Sense about Science', stated to be "an organisation which campaigns for honest, transparent and responsible scientific practice". That's a laugh!!
I have just read and reviewed Martin Walker's excellent new book Dirty Medicine The Handbook which has quite a lot to say about 'Health Corporationists' groups including 'Sense about Science' and the 'Royal Society' mentioned in the ABSW report on Deer's press award. Mr Taverne as a 'Health Corporationist' individual, features prominently in all sections.
As the name 'corporationists' suggests, these groups are all about promoting the interests of powerful corporations, including the pharmaceutical industries. Anything which might compromise those profitable interests, including public concerns about the safety of vaccines or medications has to be publicly 'rubbished' 'debunked' 'denigrated'...call it what you will. This inevitably involves the public vilification of the any 'whistleblowing' scientists and, as you correctly pointed out, the parents of those apparently vaccine damaged children. Dick Taverne's spurious assertion claiming these parents were 'opposed to immunisation (and who were strong believers in homoeopathy)' is both completely unfounded and quite disgraceful. Of course, these defenders of those immensely profitable conventional medicines and therapies, also have strongly vested interests in destroying credibility and access to alternative medicines and therapies.
'Honest, transparent and responsible?' Not a prayer!!
'Scientific?' Well-let's just say I would like to test Paul Offit's hypothesis about the human immune system easily tolerating 10,000 vaccines at once on some of these persons!!
Martin Walker's book Dirty Medicine The Handbook is available from Amazon or his own website www.slingshotpublications.com
PS Ms Davis's blog can be read here:
The first entry, written on 29 March 2011 reads:
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"Welcome to 'The Scientific Oxonian' a blog about all things scientific. Here you'll find articles about research, news and views on recent events and musings on much more. Enjoy!"
However, reading it you might feel it is a lot more about social networking.
Hi Jenny,
Interesting find. I note that the two people the ABSW article cites are Mark Henderson from the Times of London (News International stable-mate of the Sunday Times) and Sile Lane of the industry lobby group Sense About Science. It was the chairman of Sense About Science, Lord (Dick) Taverne, who in 2004 wrote an article in BMJ alleging:
"As long ago as 1994 legal aid was granted to a group of parents who were opposed to immunisation (and who were strong believers in homoeopathy), for an action claiming that MMR causes brain damage, epilepsy, arthritis, and autoimmune disease."
As if:-
1) The identities and beliefs of the group had been revealed to him
2) The said believers in homeopathy had had their children vaccinated with MMR in order to be able to sue the manufacturers on spurious grounds
All of which is very odd, to say the least.
Anyhow, the ABSW article is written by Nicola Davis of the Oxford science magazine "Bang".
According to TheNakedScientists.com Ms Davis:
"...began studying chemistry because she liked 'the pretty colours' and is now, aptly, researching porphyrin dyes for her DPhil in Organic Chemistry at Oxford University. Apart from synthesising a rainbow in the lab, Nicola has enjoyed writing science articles for a variety of magazines as well as taking up the position of chief editor for 'Bang!', Oxford's science magazine. When not scribbling down ideas for her next article, Nicola enjoys archery, martinis and riding."
So, obviously a really tip-top person!
Thanks again, Jake, for another comprehensive explication of fact. I need another corruption flowchart to keep up with the trails of influence and payoffs.
From the report from the Association of British Science Writers (above):-
"The specialist of the year award has gone to a journalist who writes primarily about science. It's about time a science writer was recognised, especially as the Press Awards offers business, politics and even showbiz prizes but has no separate category for science and health reporting.
Awards do not have a 'science journalism' section, but Deer's award is effectively for just that – great science journalism. The ABSW runs science writers' awards for professional journalists, with the aim of rewarding excellence in science journalism. The awards ran continuously from 1966 to 2007, with the support of a variety of sponsors. Over the years the awards became the 'Oscars' of science writing, and served as a model for similar schemes all over the world... with support from Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development.
The Wellcome Trust started a new Science Writing Prize for non-professional writers last week."
Wonderful isn't it!! all these pharmaceutical industries supporting journalists with their science writing. Interesting that they DON'T seem to sponsor REAL scientists, just persons like Deer with no scientific or medical qualifications whatsoever!! The next stage is to get the articles published in some 'respected' newspaper or journal. What better than Murdoch's Sunday Times, with James Murdoch's useful directorship links to GlaxoSmithKline, MMR manufacturers.
Fascinating to see who the judges were!! Rebecca Brooks of all persons and Richard Caseby, managing editor of The Sunday Times. Thanks Jake. I would love to know who or what 'sponsored' that ritzy Press Association 'do' at the London Savoy!!
Well done, Jake!
Mr. Deer and his co-conspirators look like rats steering the ship now -- but -- history shows that time will take back that ship. The storm has been brewing for awhile that eventually will have those rats crawling over each other to escape their fate - exposure and collapse!
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow
This is his professionalism don't watch the whole film it will make you puke, but go to 6.02 at the very end of the video he writes "F**K em!".. The juxtaposition he adopts here it seems is that his venom is, directed at the award winner who exposés a paedophilia ring. How insensitive is it to write a sexual comment like that at the end of such an award ceremony where children were being sexually abused ..it is as if he hates children and the whole of the human race, to boot....
Thanks Jake
I've been both a judge and a recipient of state and national awards in the U.S., so I know how these things work. And what I can tell you is that, if Brian Deer were truly the quality, award-winning journalist he wants people to think he is, he would have many other honors to boast about, besides these two isolated -- and questionable -- ones.
I've been following his "work" for quite some time, and have wondered the entire time why no one else has followed in his footsteps and "uncovered" the same story he claims as his own. In REAL journalism, as soon as someone gets an award on a topic, there are tons of copycatters working on similar stories in their own hometowns. But this hasn't happened with his stories, which have kind of just sunk to the bottom and stayed there with only the other guilty parties to pile laud on them.
In my opinion, Deer is not a professional journalist because he has no ethics -- and no real talent, either.
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Knowing about your work-related benefits is now easier for more employees after the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) released its first Handbook on Workers' Statutory Monetary Benefits in Filipino. The 73-page manual is part of DOLE's initiative to boost its information dissemination program to reduce the number of labor-related abuses in the country. "This handbook is an integral part of the DOLE's effort to keep the public well-informed about the latest laws and regulations on labor standards, the foremost aim of which is to promote better appreciation of such standards, improve working conditions, and develop a culture of voluntary compliance, chiefly among employers and workers," Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said. (Samuel Medenilla)
Manila Bulletin cartoonist Norman B. Isaac was one of the recipients of the 6th Ani ng Dangal Awards (Harvest of Honors) given by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) under the Office of the President. The award recognizes artists who have earned international prizes and accolades during the past year. The annual event is part of the Philippine Arts Festival 2014, NCCA's grand event in celebration of the National Arts Month every February. Isaac, an awardee in the Visual Arts category, is a consistent winner in local and international cartoon competitions.
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Rihanna's Digs
Trulia Reports that Rihanna is selling her Los Angeles home. "With seven bedrooms, and nine bathrooms in Beverly Hills", the singer reportedly never moved in. "This 8,520 square foot property offers canyon views and urban glamour". The rooms throughout the house are light and bright, with crisp lines and a primarily black and white palette. There is a consistency to the design approach, with walls and built elements receding in black, and furniture and upholstered pieces seeming to float and pop in the high contrast environment. Seems move in ready, and welcoming.
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Tags: architecture, Beverly Hills, Celebrity Real Estate, interior design, Rihanna
One Response to "Rihanna's Digs"
Gary Manhart Says:
December 22nd, 2012 at 1:35 am
Awful work. In the current tailspin print media is in, it doesn't surprise me to see the quality of work going to shit.


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Soriano's HR lone highlight for Cubs in loss to Bucs
CHICAGO – Alfonso Soriano prevented the Cubs from getting shut out by Pittsburgh for the second straight day. His home run in the ninth inning was about the only dent they made against A.J. Burnett and the Pirates.
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Fire destroys Castle Rock barn, kills 12 baby chickens
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. - Fire destroyed a large barn and killed 12 baby chickens in Castle Rock on Friday morning.
The fire on Oakgrove Way was first reported at 2:48 a.m.
Castle Rock Fire chief Art Morales told 7NEWS the first firefighters to arrive at the 5,000-square-foot barn found it engulfed in flames.
It took about 45 minutes to get the fire under control.
Morales said firefighters were called in from Castle Rock, South Metro, Franktown and Elizabeth.
No firefighters were hurt, but 12 chickens died. Two dirt bikes and the barn were destroyed.


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From Edmunds.com
These days, more pets than ever are traveling in vehicles; unfortunately, though, most drivers aren't taking the steps necessary to ensure that this travel is safe both for them and their pets. Most of these animals ride unrestrained, increasing the risk of pet injury or fatality during an accident. The animals aren't the only ones at risk: If you have an accident at 35 mph while toting your 60-pound unrestrained dog, your pet is capable of causing an impact of up to 2,700 pounds, slamming into the seat, the windshield, or even a passenger. If your unrestrained pet survives the crash, Fido or Fifi may impede or slow the progress of rescue workers, who'll need to secure the traumatized animal before treating human victims.
Bark Buckle Up is committed to informing pet owners about the dangers of unrestrained pet travel. The organization tracks in-depth statistics regarding pet safety, and works with police and fire departments as well as the general public to promote safe pet travel. As part of its Pet Safety Program, Bark Buckle Up and Edmunds.com have collaborated to determine the 10 vehicles whose features make them best suited for transporting you and your animal companion in safety. The top choices are listed below, in alphabetical order.
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Cycling and BMX
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Tour de France Glance
Associated Press
GAP, France -- A brief look at Tuesday's 16th stage of the 100th Tour de France:
Stage: A 104-mile route starting from the Provence village of Vaison-la-Romaine in the heart of the Rhone winemaking country and finishing in the foothills of the Alps in Gap.
Winner: Portuguese rider Rui Costa won after a solo breakaway up Col de Manse, the last of the day's moderate climbs. He crossed the line 42 seconds ahead of Frenchman Christophe Riblon.
Yellow Jersey: Chris Froome. The British rider still leads Dutchman Bauke Mollema by 4 minutes, 14 seconds and Spain's Alberto Contador by 4:25. Froome and Contador both had trouble on a speedy descent down to Gap, with Contador falling and Froome swerving left to narrowly avoid him.
Stat of the day: 22:01. The gap between Costa and Belgian Kris Boeckmans, the last of the 179 riders to finish the stage.
Quote of the day: "It was a bit dangerous from Alberto to ride like that, it's not good" -- Froome, blaming Contador for riding too dangerously on the descent.
What's next: Froome will be among the favorites to win Wednesday's 17th stage, a 20-mile time trial from Embrun to Chorges. He finished second in the Tour's first time trial last week.


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Powerless over our separation from our spiritual base, we use dependencies to fill the void caused by that separation
We use dependencies to avoid our pain.
We live in a fantasy world.
We cannot cope with life.
Our denial kept us from seeing how powerless and unmanageable our lives had become.
Surrender is the answer
We had to stop fighting a Higher Power, ourselves and others.
The solution:
- Honesty
- Open-mindedness
- Willingness


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ANALYSIS: Family attacks grow in Missouri Senate race
Monday, September 27, 2010
The Missouri Republican Party convened a conference call of the state's media this past week to express their political outrage about a coffee pot shared by a Senate campaign manager and a union director.
The owners of the presumed coffee pot? Mindy and Jeff Mazur.
She manages the campaign of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan. In October, he will be the new executive director of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Council 72.
AFSCME, as the union is known, already has spent nearly $1 million airing ads against Carnahan's opponent, Republican Roy Blunt, the Republican Party said. Federal law prohibits coordination between candidates and independent groups supporting their campaigns.
Just imagine the Mazur household, said Republican Party Executive Director Lloyd Smith.
"Maybe you would indicate over a cup of coffee in the morning that AFSCME is going to go up with a hard-hitting attack radio ad — as they have prior to this — and your companion over coffee that morning would say: 'Really?' And that would cause you not to run your radio until those radio ads have finished," Smith said. "It's a clear violation if that collaboration occurs."
But the hypothetical home coffee conversation overlooks an important point, said John Noonan, the political director for AFSCME Council 72.
As executive director of Council 72, Jeff Mazur's job will be to manage union operations and provide services to its members — not to decide political expenditures, Noonan said. In fact, decisions about political ads are made by union officials in Washington, D.C., who are "sequestered behind a legal and communications firewall" from other union staff in Missouri, he said.
The Republican outrage over the shared coffee pot is the just the latest example of how Missouri's U.S. Senate campaign has become increasingly personal in the past few weeks. Carnahan, the secretary of state, has based her campaign on the assertion that Blunt is a corrupt congressman. Blunt has called her a liar. But now, the Democrats and Republicans also are bashing the candidates' families — and those of their campaign staff.
The family attack was started by Democrats.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ran a TV ad targeting Blunt's wife, Abigail, and their life together. It described her as "a powerful tobacco lobbyist" — she once did lobby for Philip Morris tobacco but no longer does — and accused them of "building a new million home in D.C's best neighborhood," though the property they own there remains vacant and is for sale.
The DSCC's most recent ad accuses Blunt of misusing his position for the benefit of his family. More specifically, it says he inserted into legislation "special favors for companies his family lobbied for."
Carnahan has been running a similar ad. It shows a clip from a Fox News Network interview with Blunt in which a reporter says to him: "In 2002, you tried to insert language into the homeland security act to help Philip Morris tobacco while you were dating that company's lobbyist."
The provision to which the ad refers ultimately was removed before the bill passed.
Before targeting Carnahan's campaign manager and her husband, the Missouri Republican Party had seized upon a recent White House reporting listing a $107 million stimulus grant in lieu of tax credits for the Lost Creek Wind Farm in northwest Missouri. The company that developed the wind-energy project is led by Tom Carnahan — the brother of both Robin Carnahan and Democratic U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, of St. Louis.
The Carnahans have denied any role in securing money for their brother's firm. His company was one of more than a thousand that qualified for the renewable energy incentives, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
Why do politicians and political parties criticize not only each other but also each other's spouses and siblings?
The website wisegeek.com promotes itself as providing "clear answers for common questions."
It's answer to the question "What is political mudslinging" includes the following explanation:
"Many candidates attack not only each other's issues, but also attack each other on a very personal level. Worse yet, at times political mudslinging may also include members of a candidate's family. Outright accusations are rarely necessary to achieve the goal of creating scandal. One may simply use innuendo or hyperbole as forms of political mudslinging. In other words, one does not have to prove that the other candidate is corrupt or dishonest; he or she only needs to plant that seed."
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'Chime' is an Interactive Bell-Shaped Pavilion Designed by Students at the Manchester School of Architecture
Posted By Marina Vasileva On November 14, 2012 @ 3:30 pm In Architecture,Reader Submitted Content | 1 Comment
The Chime Pavilion [2] is an interactive, bell-shaped pavilion that invites families and children to play with a bell system set within the structure. The pavilion was designed by students at Manchester School of Architecture [3], who were challenged to design and build a pavilion for the gardens of Dunham Massey [4], a National Trust house in Cheshire. The Trust wanted a design that related to the history and surroundings of the house and garden while providing an attractive and exciting pavilion for visitors.
The Chime pavilion mimics the iconic form of a bell, which represents the story of the servants within the house, who would receive orders though the sound of the bells. Chime brings together the magic of Dunham Massey, integrating the past and present in a design that allows exploration and engagement with the park. Families can have fun ringing the bells within the structure and playing the melodies inscribed on to panels inside. It showcases a key feature of the house in the garden, bringing the two to life.
The site on which the pavilion sits is in close proximity to the servants' kitchens, and it offers excellent views of the moat and the grounds. The students recently completed a successful Kickstarter campaign [6] to raise money for the materials and machinery necessary to build the pavilion.
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