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Saatchi & Saatchi for Club 18-30: the ads
FLASHBACK to 2001. Saatchi & Saatchi are working for Club 18-30:
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Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Mad Magazine 1968: Fireworks for Christmas
FLASHBACK to UK Mad: Issue 82 / November 1968 – the back cover:
Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Flashback | Comments (2)
Police publish list of Zumba prostitute Alexis Wright’s alleged clients
AMERICA, home to the world’s largest porn industry, is upset by prostitution. New England is spinning on Alexis Wright, the personal trainer who allegedly ran a brothel from her Zumba keep-fit studio in Kennebunk, Maine (see photo). Zumba is a godless habit of, well, let’s allow Wikipedia to tell you:
Zumba involves dance and aerobic elements. Zumba’s choreography incorporates hip-hop, soca, samba, salsa, merengue, mambo, martial arts, and some Bollywood and belly dance moves. Squats and lunges are also included.
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The Gary McKinnon extradition story: in photos
THE story of Gary McKinnon’s extradition to the USA is one of a man with a passion falling foul of the law. He hacked into scores of US State department computers. The man who has Asperger’s Syndrome was looking for evidence of alien life. The Americans wanted to interrogate the computer expert on their soil. The British dithered and then saved him. Others might want to admire his skills:
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
Forget banning legal highs and just legalise drugs
LEGAL highs. There the drugs taken by people who don’t want to be criminals but want to get of their face. Now, a group called the Angelus Foundation says it’s researched the market in these drugs. Its data “suggests a third of 16 to 24 year olds are now likely to try them”.
Suggests. Likely.
The survey should feature other questions:
“If cannabis was not illegal would you be more or less likely to take a so-called legal high?”
“Is alcohol too expensive?”
“Are cigarettes gateway drugs?”
“Is alcohol a gateway drug?”
“Should all drugs be legalised?”
“Would you like to know a cheap way to get off your face for a few hours?”
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Gary McKinnon gives a boost to compassionate Conservatives
GARY McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, will not be heading to a concrete box in the United States. Home Secretary Teresa May has blocked his extradition. Gary McKinnon hacked into US military computers.
Mrs May told MPs:
”After careful consideration of all the relevant material I have concluded the Mr McKinnon extradition would give rise to such a risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with his human rights”.
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comments (10)
Then and now: Children of horror films grown up
WHAT happened to the child stars of horror films?
Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Film, Flashback | Comment (1)
Ex-Gurkha with knife stuck in arm fights off mugger
TO Maidstone, Kent, where a man with a knife has threatened Taitex Phlamachha and his wife, Asha. The couple had finished work at the Namaste Off Licence in Sandlin. They stopped off at a cash machine. They were on their way home.
The robber pushed Taitex to a wall. He barked: “Hand over the money.” He threatened to knife the couple.
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Rare photos of the Rolling Stones on their 1965 US Tour
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FOUND: Photographs of the Rolling Stones, will be a month long exhibition of twenty-three rare and candid photographs that document the legendary Rolling Stones on their American tour in 1965. Curated by Lauren White and George Augusto the exhibit is presented by Dilettante in collaboration with Apart Projects.
In and around the landscape of Savannah, Georgia and Clearwater, Florida, the eager and compelling subjects are Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and founding member/road manager, Ian Stewart.
Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment (1)
The Lake Annecy Murders: Can we just blame the Jews and move on?
THE Lake Annecy Murders: A catch-up on the news of a massacre that has almost vanished from the news cycle.
Saad al-Hilli, 50, an engineer, his wife Iqbal, 47, his 74-year-old Swedish mother-in-law, Suhaila Al-Allaf and Frenchman Sylvain Mollier were murdered.
David Aaronovitch tells Times readers:
A persistent fall-back theory for almost any high-profile unexplained death is that “Mossad done it”. One author, Gordon Thomas, who had a best-seller with his imaginative Gideon’s Spies, has Mossad killing Robert Maxwell and playing a hand in the death of Princess Diana.
On Saturday, the Daily Mail published a long piece by David Jones under the headline: “Was Mossad behind the Alps murders?” Apparently Jones and “a team of Mail reporters” had “spent the past week probing the mystery” of the hitman-style killing of Saad al-Hilli, his family and a French cyclist.
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Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (12)
Evangelos Venizelos and Greece’s Jewish and gay problem
IT always comes back to the Jews. Evangelos Venizelos, leader of Greece’s socialist Pasok party and former Greek finance minister, reportedly, says the names on the Lagarde list are “Jewish”.
The Lagarde list is what the Greek press have dubbed a list containing 1,991 names of wealthy, Swiss-bank-account-possessing Greeks. It’s named after French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund. Evangelos Venizelos says he was given the list.
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Indonesia’s mental health shackles used to promote World Mental Health Day
HOW do they care for the mentally ill in Indonesia? The AP reports: “An Indonesian man identified as Goro who is mentally ill is confined to a wooden stock at his family residence in Trenggalek, East Java, Indonesia. Thousands of Indonesians with mental health issues are spending their lives in shackles or chain due to the lack of psychiatric services for the poor.” Really? The Ministry of Data says more than 15,000 Indonesians with a mental illness who are either chained, caged or placed in primitive stocks.
The AFP says:
There are 48 mental hospitals in the country of 240 million people, and only 700 registered psychiatrists.
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Occupy London protest in photos – four women are chained to the St Paul’s pulpit
TO the Occupy movement demo on the steps of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. They came to mark the first anniversary of protests by the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality, which led to a tented village pitched outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London. The highlight has been four women chaining themselves to the pulpit in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral. Can you think of a worse existence than being chained inside a draughty, echoey, spooky church? The police want to move them on. Why not leave them? St Paul’s could do with the congregants. Terry Waite approves this message:
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Amanda Todd: Suicide becomes a whodunnit?
AMANDA Todd has died. The 15-year-old is thought to have killed herself. You might have seen the Candian’s video. In it, she holds up handwritten notes to tell her story of bullying. She says a stranger seduced her to show her breasts on camera online. The stranger took a picture and posted it online. The stranger created a Facebook page and added Todd’s friends to it. That happened when Amanda Todd was 12.
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Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Technology | Comments (2)
1960: The original Flinystones line up
1960: The Flintstones:
Fred Flintstone – Alan Reed
Wilma Flintstone – Jean Vander Pyl
Betty Rubble – Bea Benaderet
Barney Rubble – Mel Blanc
Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Flashback, TV & Radio | Comment
Correction of the week: Peter O’Toole is getting better
CORRECTION of the week: The Irish Times has encouraging news for Peter O’Toole:
Spotter: @BrianNolan1974
Boy arrested for singing along to sweary song in park
“I THINK the arresting officer’s actions were just as abhorrent as the language used by my son,” said Steve Pierce. “I have a big problem with criminalizing a 15-year-old boy over a mistake that wasn’t directed in animosity or meant to assault anybody in any way.”Posted: 13th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
The work of courtroom artist Elizabeth Cook (photos)
ELIZABETH Cook is courtroom artist. You know her work. It’s on the telly and in the papers. Cook is one of only three court artists working in the UK. She’s not allowed to draw in court. She produces her work from memory and notes. And she needs to work fast. We’ve compiled a gallery of it. Can you name the cases? And take note of the faces of those around the accused. The police can be judgemental:
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Posted: 12th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Jeremy Forrest appears in Eastbourne Magistrates’ Court: photos
JEREMY Forrest, the 30-year-old maths teacher who took his pupil and lover Megan Stammers, 15, to France has appeared at Eastbourne Magistrates’ Court East Sussex, to face charges of child abduction. He has been remanded in custody:
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Posted: 12th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
The Catholic Church regrets Jimmy Savile
THE Tablet reports on Jimmy Savile, the papal knight accused of being a paedophile. A spokesman for the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales said the Church would not have awarded Sir Jimmy the honour if it “had been aware of the allegations and the allegations had proved to be true”.
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Jessica Ridgeway – the story in photos
THE story of Jessica Ridegway in photos. The 10-year-old girl went missing on her way to school in Colorado:
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1974: Philippe Petit walks a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center
FLASHBACK: Philippe Petit walks a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City August 7, 1974.
You can see this brilliant story of derring-do in the film Man on Wire.
Posted: 11th, October 2012 | In: Flashback | Comments (3)
North Korea: ‘Labor Hero Awarded to Lathe No. 26 at Pyongyang Textile Machine Factory’
TO North Korea, where The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has awarded a medal to a metal lathe once used by dearly departed Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il:
Title of Labor Hero Awarded to Lathe No. 26 at Pyongyang Textile Machine Factory
Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) — The DPRK awarded the title of labor hero of the DPRK and the gold medal (hammer and sickle) and the First Class of the Order of National Flag to the lathe No. 26 at the Pyongyang Textile Machine Factory.
Lathe No. 26 is the historic lathe which leader Kim Jong Il personally operated when he came to this factory for production practice during his days of study at Kim Il Sung University.
He set a noble example of equipment and technological management and raised the torch of the model machine movement.
That machine had operated in full capacity over last more than 50 years and was modernized as CNC lathe. The lathe has greatly contributed to the building of a thriving nation by processing a large number of parts needed for the production of textile machines and custom-built equipment for major projects.
A decree of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly on awarding the title of labor hero to it was issued on Thursday.
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Barry Thew jailed for wearing a T-shirt celebrating Manchester police murders
BARRY Thew has been sentenced to eight months prison for wearing a T-shirt.
Barry Thew, 39, of Radcliffe, Manchester, wore his homemade T-shirt after PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes were murdered in the city.
The legend written across his chest:
“ONE LESS PiG – PerGect JuStice”
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Posted: 11th, October 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
