September 2010
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Safety signs
Amplify’d from www.safetyphoto.co.ukAll visitors and drivers must report to reception - on a
railway platform in Winchester!, but more importantly the sign
says wear hard hat, the worker has not got one, either he can’t
read, the rules are not enforced or he has language problems. Safety signsSee more at www.safetyphoto.co.uk See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bapa
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The Shimmering Toilet Dots
Amplify’d from www.moillusions.comThe Shimmering Toilet DotsHere’s another submission I overlooked back in 2008. This one was sent in by Andrew Griffiths, who has seen this type of illusion hundreds of times around the net, but never in real life! I, myself couldn’t think of a better example to showcase, than a regular place I visit – a toilet! Remember when doing our duty, most of the time we let...
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Revealed a great hidden agenda about China blood...
Revealed a great hidden agenda about China blood coal
96mfpbloodshedincident.blogspot.com
Revealed a great hidden agenda about China coal mine accidents frequent killed thousands people a year and especially about HeNan Province Dong Xing coal mine killed 25 people as a serious incidentAmplify’d from 96mfpbloodshedincident.blogspot.com
Revealed a great hidden agenda about China blood coal
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French bloke wins libel case against Google
Amplify’d from www.thinq.co.ukFrench bloke wins libel case against Google
A French man has won 5,000 euros in libel damages against Google, after claiming that searching for his name in the outfit’s all-conquering search engine turned up a list of somewhat unflattering results.
The man, who was not named and referred to as M. X, complained that Google’s...
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Commonwealth Games Stadiums Built By Children As...
Amplify’d from humantrafficking.change.orgCommonwealth Games Stadiums Built By Children As Young As Three Horrifically, children as young as three have been building stadiums for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India. And worse yet, construction managers have actually bribed poor parents to bring their children to the dangerous work site. It’s time to tell the Commonwealth Games...
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Violent Video Games Increase Aggression Long After...
Amplify’d from www.sciencedaily.comViolent Video Games Increase Aggression Long After the Game Is Turned Off, Study FindsScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2010) — Playing a violent video game can increase aggression, and when a player keeps thinking about the game, the potential for aggression can last for as long as 24 hours, according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science...
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The Top 11 Signs That You’re a Bad Boss
Amplify’d from www.openforum.comThe Top 11 Signs That You’re a Bad BossUnfortunately, too many bosses think they are in tune with their employees, but live in a fool’s paradise. If you’re a boss, you should review this list of the top eleven attitudes to figure out if you’re acting like a bad boss. 1. “I am going to get mine.” Let’s face it, you deserve to get more goodies and get them first....
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Why Are Cell Phone Conversations So Distracting?
Amplify’d from psychcentral.comWhy Are Cell Phone Conversations So Distracting? We’ve all been there — sitting in a public place, and feeling like that person over there, talking on their cell phone, is so annoying. Why are they so annoying? What makes a cell phone conversation that you overhear so distracting?
Four researchers, led by Lauren Emberson (2010) from Cornell University, set to find...
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Rabbit Stew at the Hilton
Amplify’d from allieiswired.comParis Hilton ‘Saves’ 20 Bunnies, Puts Them in Her BackyardParis Hilton has adopted 20 rabbits, after she learned their fate — the bunnies were being sold as snake food.The heiress insisted on buying the animals from a pet shop and said that they are “happy” in her backyard.See more at allieiswired.com See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/aova
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Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary: Global warming is...
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Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary: Global warming is ‘horseshit’ - and other insights
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Ryanair’s chief executive rips into ‘fucking eco-warriors’, ‘bogus’ scientists and aviation’s ‘crap’ tax deal Hilarious stuff from Michael O’Leary in the Independent this...
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Google damages users’ brains
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Google damages users’ brains World’s dominant internet search engine Google is damaging the brains of its users by providing them with too much assistance in solving problems, an author claims.
Nicholas Carr writes in his latest book “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” that Google is actually erasing the need to use...
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Romania drops 'witches tax' over curse fears
Amplify’d from newslite.tvRomania drops ‘witches tax’ over curse fearsPolitician in Romania have scrapped plans to introduce a tax on fortune tellers, witches and psychics… because they feared they could be cursed. Officials in the economically struggling country had planed to start taxing witches in a bid to raise more money. But despite drafting new laws - which would have also held...
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Cher Makes Her Return
Amplify’d from www.pinkisthenewblog.comCher Makes Her Return To The 2010 MTV Video Music AwardsThe iconic Cher, a diva in her 60s, made a surprise appearance at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards last night when she came out to present the last award of the night — Best Video. Cher stunned the crowd when she sauntered out in an outfit that was very reminiscent of the costume she wore in her 1989...
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Continued decline of Oregon’s largest glacier
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Research shows continued decline of Oregon’s largest glacier
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Monday, September 13, 2010
CORVALLIS, Ore. – An Oregon State University research program has returned to Collier Glacier for the first time in almost 20 years and found that the glacier has decreased more than 20 percent from its size in the late 1980s. The findings are...
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Men Seem More Susceptible to Memory Problems Than...
Amplify’d from www.businessweek.comMen Seem More Susceptible to Memory Problems Than WomenAmong elderly, rate of mild impairment was 1.5 times higher in males, study finds WEDNESDAY, Sept. 8 (HealthDay News) — Elderly men are more likely to suffer memory problems than women, new research shows.
The study included 2,050 people, aged 70 to 89, in Olmsted County, Minn., who were interviewed...
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100 Swiss police can't catch retiree with gun
Amplify’d from news.yahoo.com100 Swiss police can’t catch retiree with gunBIEL, Switzerland – Swiss police say they may have to change tactics in their hunt for a fugitive gunman who shot and seriously wounded one officer in the western city of Biel.Police commander Francois Gaudy told reporters Friday that officers had tried to avoid bloodshed “but this doctrine has its...
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'Trash Police' to Enforce Recycling Laws
Amplify’d from www.foxnews.comCities Increasingly Turn to ‘Trash Police’ to Enforce Recycling LawsBeware the green police. They don’t carry guns and there’s no police academy to train them, but if you don’t recycle your trash properly, they can walk up your driveway and give you a $100 ticket. They know what’s in your trash, they know what you eat, they know how...
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A Day of Service and Remembrance
Amplify’d from www.whitehouse.govThe White House BlogThe President, the Vice President, the First Lady and Dr. Biden: A Day of Service and RemembranceThe President was joined by Defense Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon Memorial. Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden were at Zuccotti Park in New York City. And the First Lady was with Mrs. Laura...
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The Story of Cosmetics
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The Story of Cosmetics
The Story of Cosmetics, examines the pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products, from lipstick to baby shampoo. Produced with Free Range Studios and hosted by Annie Leonard, the seven-minute film by The Story of Stuff Project reveals the implications for consumer and worker health and the environment, and...
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Killer Bacteria
Amplify’d from cleantechnica.comKiller Bacteria Could Breathe New Life into Biofuel ProductionPut this one in the category of every cloud has a silver lining: E. coli, the bacteria notorious for contaminating food products from lettuce to ground beef, could also play a key role in developing the next generation of biofuels. A team of scientists from Rutgers University is working with computer...
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Cartoonist Paul Conrad Dies
Amplify’d from www.truthdig.comLegendary Cartoonist Paul Conrad DiesLegendary political cartoonist Paul Conrad died Saturday morning at the age of 86. An artist who won the Pulitzer Prize three times, Conrad was the cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times for 30 years and a proud member of Richard Nixon’s “enemies list.”In Conrad’s honor, Truthdig will be publishing a selection of his cartoons and...
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World's Largest Tidal Power Turbine
Amplify’d from thefutureofthings.comWorld’s Largest Tidal Power Turbine
The oil and gas fields of the North Sea have been meeting the power needs of the UK population for a number of years but such things have a finite lifespan and there are different ways to get power from the sea. The world’s largest and most powerful tidal power turbine has just been unveiled by Atlantis...
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Governor Brewer Retracts Beheading Claim (Kinda)
Amplify’d from www.outsidethebeltway.comGovernor Brewer Retracts Beheading Claim (Kinda) After avoiding an actual answer to a question about her beheading claim in a recent debate, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has stepped back her claims (via the AP: Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings)
“That was an error, if I said that,” the Republican told The Associated Press on Friday. “I...
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Top News Site
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Politics, United Kingdom
Al-Quds Day March through London with EDL counter prote…
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Public Health 101: Ten Great Achievements
Amplify’d from scienceblogs.comPublic Health 101: Ten Great AchievementsWhen I first started to get interested in public health several years ago, I thought of it mostly as dealing with things like vaccines and handwashing. From one of my friends who enrolled in a Master of Public Health program, I learned that it actually covers a whole range of issues that affect the population’s health...
