This rare sight was seen at wildlife trust Old Sludge Bed s nature reserve, out shirts of Exeter, Devon. The adult male scarce chaser dragonfly-bright blue abdomen with patches of black-female and juvenile males possess orange abdomen-length 45 mm, wingspan 74mm and is a species of special concern making it onr of rarest in Britain.
Saturday, 19 July 2014
Friday, 18 July 2014
Holy grail
Accessibility links Skip to content Skip to local navigation Accessibility Help BBC iD Sign in BBC navigation News Sport Weather iPlayer TV Radio More… Search term: MID WALES Home World UK England N. Ireland Scotland Wales Business Politics Health Education Sci/Environment Technology Entertainment & Arts Wales Politics North West North East Mid South West South East Newyddion 16 July 2014 Last updated at 15:05 Share this pageEmailPrint ShareFacebookTwitter 'Holy Grail' Nanteos Cup stolen by thieves The Nanteos Cup was stolen from the house of a seriously ill woman while she was in hospital In a real-life search for the Holy Grail, police are hunting thieves who have stolen a religious relic claimed to be the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper. The Nanteos Cup, a wooden chalice named after the mansion in Aberystwyth where it was once kept, has been taken. It had been loaned to a seriously ill woman because of its claimed healing properties. Burglars struck while the woman was in hospital. The cup is claimed to have been brought to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea after the death of Christ and then taken to Nanteos Mansion by seven monks from Strata Florida, Ceredigion, during the reign of Henry Vlll. Margaret Powell, from Nanteos Mansion, would give water in the cup to the sick in the late 19th Century The house was then owned by the Powell family and after the monks died, they took possession of it for centuries. Legend says the cup, made of olive wood or wych elm, is sacred and people believed it had healing properties. Owner Margaret Powell kept the chalice locked in a cupboard in a library. The sick travelled to Nanteos to drink from it. Although some experts claim it was made 1,400 years after the crucifixion. It originally measured approximately 12cm by 12cm but now measures 10cm by 8.5cm and is held together by wire staples and kept in a blue velvet bag. After many years it left Nanteos Mansion and came into the ownership of the Steadman family in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, who kept it in a bank vault in Wales. But West Mercia Police have said the cup was taken from the home in Weston-Under-Penyard sometime between 7-14 July. A spokeswoman for Nanteos Mansion said the cup had not been kept at the house for some time, they were sad it had been taken but declined to comment further. 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UPDATE_LIFE_written by maraines_ghostman
Well what a strange day , laptop taken away to be fix by my go to guy, jason.Then man and his daugther tidied fence and strim grass, and got a tablet to play with.
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
End to Aids by 2030 'is possible'
There is a chance the Aids epidemic
can brought under control by 2030, according to a report by the United Nations
Aids agency.
It said the number of new HIV infections and deaths from Aids were both falling.
However, it called for far more international effort as the "current pace cannot end the epidemic".
And charity Medecins Sans Frontieres warned most of those in need of HIV drugs still had no access to them.
The report showed that 35 million people around the world were living with HIV.
There were 2.1 million new cases in 2013 - 38% less than the 3.4 million figure in 2001.
Aids-related deaths have fallen by a fifth in the past three years, standing at 1.5 million a year. South Africa and Ethiopia have particularly improved.
Many factors contribute to the improving picture, including increased access to drugs. There has even been a doubling in the number of men opting for circumcision to reduce the risk of spreading or contracting HIV.
Warning
While some things are improving, the picture is far from rosy.
Access to antiretroviral drugs is still an
issue Fewer than four in 10 people with HIV are getting life-saving antiretroviral therapy.
And just 15 countries account for three-quarters of all new HIV infections.
The report said: "There have been more achievements in the past five years than in the preceding 23 years.
"There is evidence about what works and where the obstacles remain, more than ever before, there is hope that ending Aids is possible.
"However, a business-as-usual approach or simply sustaining the Aids response at its current pace cannot end the epidemic."
Michel Sidibe, the executive director of UNAids, added: "If we accelerate all HIV scale-up by 2020, we will be on track to end the epidemic by 2030, if not, we risk significantly increasing the time it would take - adding a decade, if not more."
Dr Jennifer Cohn, the medical director for Medecins Sans Frontieres' access campaign, said: "Providing life-saving HIV treatment to nearly 12 million people in the developing world is a significant achievement, but more than half of people in need still do not have access."
In Nigeria, 80% of people do not have access to treatment.
Dr Cohn added: "We need to make sure no-one is left behind - and yet, in many of the countries where MSF works we're seeing low rates of treatment coverage, especially in areas of low HIV prevalence and areas of conflict.
"In some countries, people are being started on treatment too late to save their lives, and pregnant women aren't getting the early support they need."
TV channel fined £100,000 over killer documentary
One of the programmes featured the 18th Century
murderess Elizabeth Brownrigg (right)
TV channel Investigation Discovery
has been fined £100,000 for showing a crime series about female killers before
the 21:00 watershed.
Ofcom ruled that the repeated broadcast of Deadly Women "resulted in serious breaches of the Broadcasting Code".
The shows, it said, contained "graphic and disturbing... reconstructions of torture, mutilation and murder".
Such sequences, it went on, "were highly likely to have caused distress to any children in the audience".
According to Ofcom, Investigation Discovery broadcast eight episodes of Deadly Women at various times during the morning and afternoon on 16, 18 and 20 August, 2013.
It criticised the satellite channel for showing the programmes "during the school holidays when there was a significant likelihood that children would be available to view".
Deadly Women, it said, featured "attacks on individuals with hammers and knives, electrocutions and whippings... and the dismemberment of a corpse with a circular saw".
One of the programmes, broadcast at 07:50 BST, included a segment about Elizabeth Brownrigg, an 18th Century woman who was hanged for torturing orphans in her care.
Discovery Communications Europe, which owns Investigation Discovery as well as the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and TLC, accepted it had breached the code and apologised "unreservedly" for airing the programmes in an "entirely inappropriate time-slot".
"It was a genuine error and all previous series were correctly classified and shown post watershed only," it said in a statement.
"We have put in place additional procedures to prevent a recurrence of this issue."
The fine equals that levied against Playboy TV last year for not putting sufficient controls in place to check its users were aged 18 or over.
update-laptop crap and the world
well what a day electic going off ,recovering from a three day ocd -paranoid -addiction overdrive .gatting a man to look over my lap incase hacker is back. wife is worried iam going mad and step son as well.
Monday, 14 July 2014
OCD MADNEES
HAD TO HACK ON FACEBOOK ACOUT LOSE TWITER STILLON GOOGLE PLUS I HOPE I AAAAA FUCK THAT HACKER
et maledicam maledicentibus locandus Piratica potest meus laptop, inguini éum: et cadet, foeda ofit themselfs ghostman
et maledicam maledicentibus locandus Piratica potest meus laptop, inguini éum: et cadet, foeda ofit themselfs ghostman
Saturday, 12 July 2014
SWAN -WHY YOU B------D?ANIMAL ANTI CRUELTY POST
SOULMATE–FISH SAY YES
FULL MOON DOES AFFECT SLEEP?
Scientists believe that an internal clock-LUNAR CLOCK-from caveman days may be in our genes.This is the reason why men lose 50 minutes sleep a night when there is a Full Moon.It is believed ancient humans used it to protect them from being hunted by predators-UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG
DR.WHO SCRIPTS LEAK
PAID TO WATCH PAINT DRY
Paid to watch paint is not a job i would do.Dr Thomas Curwen whos job is to exmine matt ,emulsion oon walls ,under micoscopes .He does this for Dulex.
Friday, 11 July 2014
GREY SQUIRREL SPOTTED IN GARDEN
GARDEN REPORT-THIS MORNING THURSDAY 10TH JULY SPOTTED A GREY SQUIRREL COMING ALONG FENCE TO THEN CLIMB BIRDFEEDERS TO ACCESS FOOD-COOLEastern gray squirrelThe eastern gray squirrel or grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus.
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| Penny wrote: "I saw a grey squirrel run along the fence in front of our house the other day for the first time in 3 years. I'm waiting to see it again. I don't wish to feed it as we have 2 neighbourhood cats within this territory one of which is hell bent on catching the fledglings." |
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
SMALL SCHOOL HARTLAND -VENUE FOR WEIRDWEEKEND -15-17 AUGUST 2014
At the end of the Summer, we collect seeds from the flowers and vegetables and these are saved till February when a local organic gardening group uses the school for a Seed Swap. Anyone can come along to this event and even if they do not bring seeds to share, they are welcome to help themselves to some of our seeds. The event is advertised throughout North Devon and it is a good meeting place for gardeners to chat over a cup of tea and a piece of cake made by parents and students..JPG)
All of the students at The Small School have lots of opportunities to learn about cooking. Every student at the school spends a week helping out in the school kitchen. During this time we work with a different parent each day and we learn how to cook for over thirty people each meal. It is really good fun and we can use the recipes at home too. We also have to learn about budgeting as we can only spend £1 a person on the ingredients. This will help us when we live on our own we will be able to cook for ourselves. There are also other opportunities for us to help with cooking as the school organises a lot of catering events. For example the school organises a monthly Farmers’ Market in the village and students help to cook a variety of dishes from full breakfasts to just tea and cake.
As well as learning about gardening and cooking, we can also choose from 16 subjects at GCSE level. The subjects are Maths, English Language and English Literature, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Drama, Music, Film, Photography, History, Geography, Latin, Classics, Art and Textiles.
Our school is in an old chapel building and it was set up just over thirty years ago by Satish Kumar as he was concerned about young people travelling long distances to large comprehensives. As a result of this we do not receive any government funding and parents only pay just over £500 a term. The rest of the money comes from the many fundraisers we have to organise and donations from people who support the philosophy of the school. We get quite a lot of visitors from all over the world and we often have volunteers who come into school to teach school to teach a workshop or help out for the day.If you would like to visit our school then the contact details are on our website www.thesmallschool.org.uk
Year 8 and 9 students
The Small School, Hartland, North Devon
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