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Sunday 27 March 2016
rant issue 2
The government's living wage £50 more an hour wow not a lot to live on at present I get DLA but if I was to make a reclaim I will get Pip which would take longer to get and I may not qualify for anyway in life ,there a lot of social in Justice mainly in Bideford where are young lad was had his hands tied up as was going to tie his legs up on the way home from school . And then the tormentors wanted to throw him into the road when the parents were informed their said the kid should just Grow Up, you can now find me me in Gozo weekly back as a cartoonist I hope you like them not just me in Belgium we had the horror of terrorism again I don't understand these people I never will but I think it's important to keep living your normal life As it is only way to stand up to to them ,TV this weekend has been a load of rubbish as usual i went online to do my blog also I'm going to try to deal with my paranoid thoughts through self help I don't go to to the medication route at the moment as I see it I can see where that leads so hope you read these rants and not just me thank you from Mark aka ghostman
World’s oldest hot cross bun
The world’s oldest hot cross bun - which was baked 207 years ago - resides with a retired couple in Essex.
Andrew Munson and his wife Dot were given the 207-year-old bun by an old neighbour.
A note with the historic bun says that it was baked on Good Friday 1807 in Colchester, Essex.
Local historian Andrew Phillips has discovered a direct link which supports the claims on the bun’s note, which makes it the oldest hot cross bun in the world.
Mr Munson, 75, said: “I think it's a miracle it never went mouldy or fell apart in all these years.
Queen Victoria's wedding cake FOR AUCTION
This is three tiny pieces of Queen Victoria's wedding cake which is 176 years old NHS which was owned by a serving sailor on the Lord Nelson's HMS Victory. W rapped in parchment in the words of Queen Victoria's wedding cake married February 10th 1840 but also day is April 1st.
GENDER NEUTRAL STATUS DENIED.
In a court in Orleans, France they have denied a man of 64 who was born with male and female organs the right to be gender neutral status.
SHAKESPEARE'S SKULL IS MISSING ?
Archaeologists carried out a Radar scan on the site of Shakespeare's grave to support theory that he had removed his head in the 18th century .A skull which was which found 15 miles away turned out to be a woman's aged about 70. N o digs are not allowed at the Holy Trinity Church Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire. Scans were allowed for a channel 4 documentary Secret History Shakespeare's tomb,Shakespeare died of April 1616 aged 52.
BRITAIN'S SMALLEST MUSEUM?
This is a museum in a 39 square foot bathroom St Ives Cornwall dedicated to Explorer Sir Richard Burton
Feeling lucky? Treasure hunters out to get Reich quick: £20bn in missing Nazi loot is STILL hidden across Germany
AS Nazi Germany began to fall in 1945 its leaders set about hiding the treasures they looted for the previous six years.
Priceless art and silver, some of it stolen from the Jews they sent to the gas chambers, artefacts taken from museums and tonnes of gold — all stashed in mines or sunk in lakes as defeat in World War Two loomed.
While some of these cultural treasures were saved by Allied units, around£20BILLION of loot is still missing.
And the hunt for it is still on.
Last year, locals in the Polish town of Walbrzych claimed to have found evidence of secret railway tunnels where, legend has it, Third Reich generals hid a train loaded with gold and jewellery.
In 2012 a £1billion horde of art, some of it stolen by the Nazis, was uncovered in a Munich flat.
Treasure hunters have also focussed on various lakes where billions in Reichsbank gold was thought to have been dumped.
Here, we pick out what is still missing — and where it might be.read more =http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7018409/20bn-in-missing-Nazi-loot-is-hidden-across-Germany.html
HOW TO GO TO THE TOILET IF A UNIVERSITY STUDENT?
If you are a student at the University of Sheffield you may see some of illustrated cards in the campus because read do not put toilet paper on floor put toilet paper in the toilet bowl and flush when there is a picture hurting him not to squat on the toilet seat and please leave the toilet as you wish to find it what the waste of resources.
INVISIBILITY CLOAK MAY HAPPEN?
These are Hi Tech camouflage sheets that mimics terrain to make shelters undetectable to the naked eye heat seeking devices. This is called vatal and tests were carried out by third Battalion the rifles Fort benning Georgia USA .Also the US military is developing camouflage to mimic squid and octopus as these creatures appearance blend in two different backgrounds.
Allison Wheeler-Heau an article
Take time out to think and act
Dear Ghostman,
As a senior executive, all too often you will be bogged down by the tyranny of the inbox, which requires your constant attention and incessant replies to colleagues, clients and stakeholders. Although sometimes apparently difficult to do time-wise, it is extremely important for senior leaders and directors to take the time to step away from the daily demands of business to review your current (and past) recipes and ways of doing things, in order to re-energise and refresh your plans and thoughts for the future of the business, and indeed your own personal future.
The Cambridge Advanced Leadership programme (ALP) here in Cambridge gives Managing Director and C-Suite-level people the unique opportunity to step away from your business, and to delve into 3 weeks of intense learning, exchange and debate with fellow peers, Cambridge Faculty and practitioners, in an atmosphere which is conducive to a questioning mind around current opportunities and challenges facing organisations in today’s environment.
You will leave as an Alumni of Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education, and with renewed energy and ideas which you can use to transform and grow your company. Holistically, the ALP will help you think about your professional, and also importantly your personal life, with integrated group and personal coaching and a tailor-made well-being programme to help you kick-start new goals.
I have a programe overview available as a PDF. If you would like to receive it now, please let me know by following the link below.
If you would like to discuss the ALP with me, please email me on
a.wheeler-heau@jbs.cam.ac.uk
Thank you for your time.
Allison Wheeler-Héau
Director of Open Programmes
Director of the Cambridge Advanced Leadership Programme
Director of Open Programmes
Director of the Cambridge Advanced Leadership Programme
Saturday 26 March 2016
Atheism: A new faith
There is no church on Sunday. There are also no dietary requirements. Nor are there required days of the year set aside for worship of G-d, gods or a higher power.
As Bill Maher said, “Atheism is not a religion.”
In this sense, he is correct.
However, religion and faith are not mutually exclusive even in the most secular of definitions.
All people have faith that what they believe at this moment is correct, whether it come from biblical texts or science books. However, there is a major difference in how atheists and religious people reconcile information that is contradictory to what is currently believed.
With modern science or atheism, a new concept may be met with opposition, but once it becomes established, old texts and beliefs are scrapped and referenced for limited purposes.
For example, the lobotomy was considered sound science until 1967, when it became banned. It is important to remember that these were certified, educated doctors that made this mistake and not charlatans. Nobody is perfect, and medicine has brought great leaps and bounds to end suffering around the world. In this particular case, however, there was a mistake. The lobotomy is now regarded as the 20th century equivalent of leeching and bloodletting — which even practitioners of its day truly believed to be good medicine.
The general point of view is that these were mistakes of the medical past. While this is certainly a progressive viewpoint, it does perpetuate a certain overconfidence in what we believe to be true now. Nobody wants to admit that what diet, medication or surgery they are living by may in =read more =http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/23/atheism-fact-religion/
What is paranoia?
Everybody experiences suspicious or irrational thoughts from time to time. These fears are described as paranoid when they are exaggerated and there is no evidence that they are true.
There are three key features of paranoid thoughts. If you have paranoia, you may:
- fear that something bad will happen
- think that other people or external causes are responsible
- have beliefs that are exaggerated or unfounded.
Generally speaking, if you are experiencing paranoia, you will feel a sense of threat and fear.
There are different types of threat or harm that you may feel paranoid about. You may feel you are at risk of:
- psychological or emotional harm – thinking somebody is bullying you, spreading rumours about you, talking about you behind your back
- physical harm – believing somebody trying to physically hurt or injure you, or even trying to kill you
- financial harm – thinking another person is stealing from you, or is damaging your property or tricking you into giving away your money.
It could be one person you feel threatened by, or it may be a group of people, an =read more =http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/paranoia/#.VvaQyuKLTIU
Sunday 20 March 2016
NEW FEATURE =WEEKLY RANT issue 1
Right I think this is going to be a new thing I'm going to try out I don't know how to get it work when I don't know going to be I don't you know that you had a weekly rent about life the universe and everything where do I start wow what about the £30 that the government want to take away for disabled people apparently even the other members don't want it I think it seems that they're taking away from the poor and giving it to the rich it's your fault basically the Tory party always does I have to give credit to IAN Duncan Smith standing up to 4 his principles even like the guy now for my next subject this is basically um how doctors treat people now the other day told my wife enid these views told us by the way you stink NHS resources and that she is overweight it's a basic error 404 do something overweight don't know what day's work was up with life um normally snobbish idiot now by any other Great Britain life is the fact that when you go on Google Chrome what other browsers are available I seem to be getting a lot of pop-ups now to spite having a blocker I think this is because of new rules and regulations but not too sure but it's a real pain in the a*** what is oil can I say oh yes there is one thing that I was going to say it I think I care this is it this is my other phone really really f***** me off is that what you no longer in a group or part of something people for places no longer want to know you milk in my mind this is discrimination yes I know I'm not black all day all anything everything that might please do this but I have some spits it through when I go places with my walking stick people tend to see the stick first and the person second which is very nice ot his is me signing off for this weekly rant oh no sorry I'm quite finished now the other thing which can be old is help machines that you dictate to don't understand your English early start putting things that you never put in I will leave it samples it this I have spoken to to put on to my blogger and my Facebook so see you later France well might be one of you anyway so goodnight good sleep good karma see you next week
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
In the early 1970s, a soulful voice could be heard wafting from radios and speakers around the world as Michael Jackson sang a heartfelt tune about 'Ben'. To the casual listener, it sounded like the best bromance in the world; a heartbroken lad singing about his brother or best friend, but that tune was the standout track to Willard, a long forgotten movie about a rat.
Talk about off the wall.
Well, plenty of folks in Spike Lee's new feature documentary will do just that, waxing lyrical about the album which sold 30 million copies worldwide, and cemented the former child star's position as a formidable solo talent.
But not before Lee eases us down the road and assesses Jacko's early days at Motown.
There's archive footage of Michael recalling how when the family's TV broke down one day, they started singing. Before long they were winning competitions and appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show.
The Jackson 5's first four songs went to number one on the American charts, and they found the freedom to go to a movie or get a burger was suddenly gone.
"He used to sing songs with a lot of feeling," recalls Michael's mother, Katherine Jackson in the film. "And he would sing 'em with a lot of feeling and a lot of moving, like he had been here before. He had lived before."=read more =http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/TV-Tonight-8203-Michael-Jackson-s-Journey-Motown/story-28918024-detail/story.html
Britain's Whales, Britain's Sharks 8:00pm, Friday, 25 March 2016, ITV
Ben Fogle and Countryfile's Ellie Harrison are on a mission – and it’s one that might freak you out next time you go for a paddle at the seaside. Apparently there are 30 species of shark and countless whales lurking in British waters, but they're rather elusive creatures. So the pair are off into the deep, using a washed-up dead whale as shark bait (it's all very ethical, don't worry), braving choppy seas and diving into dangerous waters to spot some scary marine life. It's no David Attenborough documentary, but stick with this two-part oceanic adventure, and the underwater foote will leave you gasping.
TRIBES,PREDATORS&ME
This is a series about that naturalist and wild life Cameraman Gordon Buchanan and his mission to get closer to natures most deadly beasts. In this program he meets a waorani family tribal family,Ecuador Amazon Amazon forest.Who share thier secrets to catching and releasing anaconda snakes=SEE MORE ON BBC LINK=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03l23gr
KEY IRON AGE FIND
Pocklington East Yorkshire archaeologists have discovered 75 Barrows containing skeleton some ice Iron Age hey ah ah ah as culture which lived in area about 800 PC I'm on the side with sword shield Spears amber glass beads ,brooches, this could reveal how men women child died and where they were from originally in this area
Yorkshire farmer stunned as cow gives birth to TWO-HEADED calf
Shaun Sowray, a third generation dairy farmer, was expecting a new addition but got more than he bargained for earlier this month.
Mr Sowray, 55, said the four-year-old cow - who previously had a normal calf - was behaving strangely when due to give birth.
Abnormally large, the farmer thought the cow, a holstien fresian, must be carrying twins. READ MORE ==https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/653461/Yorkshire-farmer-stunned-cow-gives-birth-to-two-headed-calf
BADGER STOPS AIRPLANE
A pilot of a Flybe flight Gatwick spotted a badger wind just 300 feet from Go r m a c Newquay Cornwall who flew the plane over the sea before landing 5 minutes later
In The Footsteps Of Judas Confirmed for BBC One on 25 March at 9am to 10am
To mark Good Friday this one-hour documentary sees one of Britain’s best-loved vicars, Kate Bottley, (pictured) re-open the case against the Bible’s most notorious villain - Judas Iscariot.
Kate’s journey takes her from her parish in Nottingham to Jerusalem, where she pieces together the events leading up to the Crucifixion. Why did Judas betray his Master at his most desperate hour? And on a day when we remember that Jesus died for all our sins, is Judas excluded from that forgiveness?
A number of leading theological experts contribute to Kate’s investigation, as she visits the Upper Room of the Last Supper; Gethsemane - the scene of Judas’ treacherous kiss; and the Field of Blood, where, according to Christian tradition, Judas hanged himself.
Ultimately, Kate demonstrates why Judas matters and why he is central to our understanding of the Christian message today.
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