koko the gorilla who talks to people.

a documentary that explores the only taking gorilla in the world .koko and her relationship with animal psychologist penny patterson ,project koko started life as a phd project to teach a baby gorilla sign language but a intense bond was formed between pupil and teacher .now together now for 40 years ,in this programme you can watch 2,000 hours of footage charting koko s best moments which includes the battle to prevent the gorilla being taken back too the zoo  in which she was born.

marks and sparks save a life.

a 65 year old man was saved from electricity from a lighting bolt pass through his body by size 10 ,15 pound rubber soled moccasins brought at a m and s store.

sad songs make you happy.

research shows that listening to sad songs can actually lift the spirits .2,436 people in england and finland were in the study and majority found the music enjoyable.but  others did find painful as reminded them of a loss of a loved one.

diamondbacks to invade britain.

a swarm about 2 miles wide was spotted near leominster,herefordshire by a motorists .farmers fear that the diamondback will wipe out cauliflower and cabbage crops.diamondbacks are believed to have originated in europe but were spotted in america in 1854 .it has a wingspan of 15 mm ,body length of  6 mm and was first insect to prove resistant to pesticide bt toxin.

15.06.1991 - 15-06 -2016 25 years .

who would have fought me and my wife would be married 25 years and counting .it started a long time ago when i put myself for sale in a bikers mag -back street heros -i got a couple of replies -one in aylesbury who was a bros fan and was using me to make her ex jealous ,one was a man pretending to be a woman-oh the shame-and the final one was to be my future wife who called herself sue then.anyway we phoned ,wrote letters than i met her the first time in bodmin then one more time and then i took the biggest gamble in my life in august 1988 and came to stay with her i did not know then but she told me about her children and her real name ..enid ..i would go into details but the past stays in the past and she got a divorce .i ask her to marry me in ilfracombe  jobcentre ,yes we have had ups and downs but we try to talk about everything and i fully admit i would be a different person with out  her and with this post i say i love you enid and may the years go on and we are those two people seating on a bench holding hands watching the world go by.

disappointment.

recently it was mine and my wife's 25th  wedding anniversary and we received  only 2 cards from family .when asked by my wife her 2 daughters said too young to remember but every year thier visit their dad's grave and post stuff on the internet .did we go wrong somewhre years ago i dont know .

Preacher 6

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1066 BATTLE OF HASTINGS BATTLEFIELD RE-PRESENTED FOR 950TH ANNIVERSARY

A new exhibition inside the Great Gatehouse will explore the lead up, location and legacy of the battle including a blow by blow account of the day itself, from dawn to dusk.  New interpretation will also be installed in the visitor centre and across the battlefield.

The project is just one part of English Heritage’s programme – ‘1066: Year of the Normans’ – to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings next year.

Kate Mavor, English Heritage’s Chief Executive, said: “The Battle of Hastings was a decisive hinge on which English history turned, defining the country’s political, social and geographical landscape for centuries to come. English Heritage will mark the 950th anniversary of the Norman Conquest with an exciting programme of events and activities throughout the year. Central to this will be our re-presentation of the most famous battlefield in England.”English Heritage’s conservation team will soon start work on the Great Gatehouse, one of the most significant examples of its type in England, combining both early Norman and 14th-Century architectural features. Repairs are being made to the masonry, ensuring the turrets and roof are both wind and weather tight to protect the interiors and enable visitors to stand on the roof.  Early investigations have already uncovered two forgotten staircases, leading up to rooms high up within the gatehouse’s turrets. The use of these remains a mystery to curators – possibly secure treasuries – but will be subject to further research that may shed new light on later uses of the building.

This year’s re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings will take place on Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 October. For more details about it and 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey and Battlefield, visit www.english-heritage.org.uk/battleabbey

For news of English Heritage and its ‘1066: Year of the Normans’ programme, follow English Heritage on twitter @EnglishHeritage or visit our website, www.english-heritage.org.uk-

foxy shoes

after a 3 week period of over 20 shoes being dumped in a garden in bracknell,berkshire .the culprit was identified as a fox

Can Growing Human Organs in Pigs Solve the Organ Shortage?

Back in the 90s, a deeply disturbing image surfaced on the nascent Internet: a lab mouse with something looking like a human ear grown on its back.

Although the “ear” was later proven to be cow cartilage — with no human tissue involved — the misinformation had spread like wildfire. The Internet exploded with cries of outrage (who are we to manufacture animal into organ farms?) and misplaced enthusiasm that science could soon provide people with an unlimited supply of spare organs.

Fast-forward 20 years, and we’ve reached that point again. Only this time, the promise is real.

Guided by sophisticated stem cell technologies and CRISPR, the genome-editing powertool, small teams of scientists have begun pushing the limits of creating human-animal chimeras. The controversial experiments hope to grow human organs inside pig embryos, from stem cells made with a patient’s skin cells.

Because the organs would have the patient’s genetic makeup and immune profile, in theory they would be completely compatible with the patient, with no risk of immunorejection.

It’s a medical dream come true.read more

sleepy leopard

staff at a zoo in salt lake ,utah ,america  got a surprise while inspecting a big cat enclosure .the surprise was a sleeping leopard outside the enclosure who had squeezed through a roof mesh gap.

Stress Symptoms, Signs, and Causes Understanding Stress, its Harmful Effects, and the Best Ways to Cope

Modern life is full of frustrations, deadlines, and demands. For many people, stress is so commonplace that it has become a way of life. Stress isn’t always bad, though. Stress within your comfort zone can help you perform under pressure, motivate you to do your best, even keep you safe when danger looms. But when stress becomes overwhelming, it can damage your health, mood, relationships, and quality of life.

You can protect yourself by understanding how the body’s stress response works, recognizing the signs and symptoms of stress overload, and taking steps to reduce its harmful effects.

What is stress?

Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand or threat. When you feel threatened, your nervous system responds by releasing a flood of stress hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol, which rouse the body for emergency action. Your heart pounds faster, muscles tighten, blood pressure rises, breath quickens, and your senses become sharper. These physical changes increase your strength and stamina, speed your reaction time, and enhance your focus.

This is known as the “fight or flight” stress response and is your body’s way of protecting you. When working properly, stress helps you stay focused, energetic, and alert. In emergency situations, stress can save your life—giving you extra strength to defend yourself, for example, or spurring you to slam on the brakes to avoid an accident.

Stress can also help you rise to meet challenges. Stress is what keeps you on your toes during a presentation at work, sharpens your concentration when you’re attempting the game-winning free throw, or drives you to study for an exam when you'd rather be watching TV.

But beyond your comfort zone, stress stops being helpful and can start causing major damage to your mind and body.read more

Arctic tern makes longest ever migration – equal to flying twice around the planet

A tiny bird from the Farne Islands off Northumberland has clocked up the longest migration ever recorded. The Arctic tern’s meandering journey to Antarctica and back saw it clock up 59,650 miles, more than twice the circumference of the planet.

The bird, which weighs just 100g, left its breeding grounds last July and flew down the west coast of Africa, rounded the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean and arrived in Antarctica in November. Its mammoth trek was recorded by a tiny device attached to its leg, weighing 0.7g - too light to affect its flight.

“It’s really quite humbling to see these tiny birds return when you consider the huge distances they’ve had to travel and how they’ve battled to survive,” said Richard Bevan at Newcastle University and part of the tracking team.

The birds survive the vast journey by dipping down to the sea surface to catch fish and other food as they travel. “They live in the fast lane all the time, constantly on the move,” said Bevan. “They have to flap all the time. It is an incredibly energetic lifestyle.”read more

banksy art at school.

at a school in whitchurch,bristol-bridge farm primary - a 6 ft image of a child with a stick chasing a burning tyre was painted over half term.this also had  note beside it from banksy -famous anonymous artist -in thanks for naming a school house after him.

bat under threat from traffic.

researchers  at university of exeter looked at 1,000 bat deaths and found their were avoiding roads which in turn stops them reaching feeding areas.one answer would be more bridges to reduce the toll.

As British gran killed by Great White in Australia how common ARE shark attacks?

As a British grandmother was savaged to death by a giant Great White shark as she dived off the Australian coast we take a look at the number of attacks in the county.

Mum of two Doreen Collyer was killed as she swam in the ocean near Perth.

Her diving buddy tried to save her and a team of fisherman hauled her onto their boat as the 20ft long beast circled.

But her injuries were so severe she died before she was taken ashore.

The university nursing lecturer had emigrated Down Under with her husband Dave, 55, five years ago.read more

fireman go potty.

in london m,ore than 7,500 incidents are kids stuck in objects like potties and others like child head in a potty ,toilet seat on a youngsters head,13 year old trapped in baby swing

Happy 90 th birthday to Queen Elizabeth

Dave Baxter = cauldronfm = an interview

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What inspired you to set up the radio station?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Well that is a difficult question - many things have inspired me to do it. So to be able to answer fully I need to go back in history. I have always been involved with the entertainment industry, from the early age of 5 I was on stage, at 11 I was studying music with the London College of Music. By the age of 15 I was playing in a band, songwriting and had my first song published by a company called Belsize. I continued life as a musician through various ups and downs and eventually set up an artist management company called Westworld  My songwriting consisted of what I would call "normal work" but then I went to Glastonbury and that visit changed my songwriting style and my life forever. During this trip to Glastonbury I met a person who asked me why I had gone to Glastonbury. I could not answer him properly until several days later when I went to the top of the Tor and that revealed to me why I had gone to Glastonbury. From that visit onwards a love affair began and I could not get enough of the place and that love affair continues to this day. During one of my visits in 1989 I did a meditation on the top of the Tor at 5.30am and during that meditation my whole future spread out before me like a roadmap on the satnav. As a result of that meditation I was inspired to write my very first album of instrumental music. In its very rough state I took the basis of that album to a company that was called Pagan Media and they had a record label of the same name. The owner – Steve – really liked what he heard and on the basis of that he offered me a single album deal with an option to extend. We continued to produce the album and although I changed recording studios in mid – stream so to say Pagan Media stuck by their promise and they released the album once it was finished. The album was called Somerset Story and it was only deleted from their catalogue in the USA 3 years ago. During the time we were recording the album I was also working with Halton Borough Council as a freelance consultant to develop a community music project. One part of this project was to set up a community radio station and I was invited to go into the broadcast studio and be interviewed about the album Somerset Story. (The DJ who interviewed me went on to become a senior lecturer at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts) As a result of that interview I was offered a presenting post on the next round of broadcasts which were to take place some 6 months later. I was unsure about accepting the offer but I did and thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. So I suppose you could say the die was cast and the seed was sown. Lots of things happened with the band and the work I was doing we were scouted by London Records, I became the Musical Director for the Spotlight Theatre Company, worked with a duo, recorded with OMD and much much more. But now the story has to move forwards to my move to Devon and here as part of my work with Westworld I met someone who was to become a long-standing friend of mine. Between us, this person, Tom Armstrong (who wass also a broadcaster) and I worked on books, CDs, advertising, show production and lots more. We had several projects running one of which was a recording studio based in Georgeham and then Braunton.  As part of the studio we set up a video/audio link between control room and recording area. We were also involved with our own theatre and performance training school which was the All-Stars Academy and we put together several productions and as part of that work we recorded the artists in our studio. One of our conversations during these recordings sessions went along the lines of wouldn't it be great if we could broadcast these sessions either on radio or TV? However at that particular time this sort of idea fell at the first hurdle because of the cost and so we continued to work this way until Tom migrated to Lanzarote and I stayed behind with my family. Cutting a long piece of the story out the next major thing that happened with regards to my work in radio was that I was working in a show at the Queens Theatre in Barnstaple when I was interviewed by Lantern Radio as it was then. This interview was with TV presenter, broadcaster and former Bond Girl Jenny Hanley.   From this interview I got a telephone call asking me to attend a meeting I did and the upshot of that meeting was that I had my own radio programme on another radio network. The terms of my engagement with the station were that I was allowed to feature music that I wanted not necessarily what was on the playlist. I negotiated hard for this and told the manager that if he wanted me on his team then he would agree to my terms.  I stayed with that station for two years and during that time I witnessed and was enthralled by the growth of podcasting. I saw podcasting as being "the future" and decided that getting into this method of broadcasting would give me an opportunity to reach a global audience for very little money and also give me total control over what I broadcast. Now that sounds like I'm a control freak but I'm not! It also sounds like I operate from a place of ego and to a certain extent at that point in my life yes I was!  Now however I take on the philosophy of a very highly respected gentlemen Dr Wayne Dyer and his philosophy was and I quote "I like approval I enjoy approval but I don't need approval" So to pick up the story again - from getting the equipment and starting my podcasting I found other people who shared the desire to broadcast their own programs. And so I offered them space on my podcast channel. This podcast and several others that I was doing started to grow in popularity and I then began to look at ways of being able to broadcast a streaming service online rather than having people needing to click to play So I spoke to various people one of whom said I can make that happen for you - and he did! And hence CauldronFM was born alongside Coaching Radio and more lately Capstone Radio However of the three radio channels that I operate only CauldronFM broadcasts 24/7 at the moment What are your aims? Wow another great question.  I suppose that the main aim for the radio side of me is to go onto mainstream broadcasting such as an independent radio station the ethos of that being of course that the programming will still be the same. However mainstream "proper" broadcasting comes with constraints on content so maybe that is simply a flight of fancy.                                                                                                                                                 What plans do you have for the future?                                                                                                 The immediate plan is to obtain a new computer and to link that into my broadcast accounts which will enable me to broadcast Capstone Radio and Coaching Radio on a split daily basis i.e. eight hours devoted to Capstone Radio and four hours to Coaching Radio then 12 hours off air I also want to get back into live broadcasting rather than pre- recorded programmes. There is something very special about doing a live show - you have to think on your feet and I like the buzz that doing that gives me Another thing that I want for CauldronFM and Capstone Radio is to bring more presenters on board so if anyone reading this or listening to it feels that they can become a part of the Moonshadow Media family please get in touch with me What music do you play and do you interview the artists? Ok let's look first at CauldronFM - since this is a pagan orientated service we mostly feature pagan artists or world artists. We are currently play listing are Appalachian prog rock outfit Tuatha Dea; Danish pagan rock band Omnia; American singer songwriter and personal friend Celia Farran and local to N Devon reggae band Malachite Moving over to Capstone Radio the music on there has a more local feel and is currently playing Jess Richards (Bideford); Maggie Davies (Ilfracombe) Dumbos Feather (Exmouth) and Ange Hardy (Williton, Somerset) among others. I often interview the artists about their work and try to get a feel for who they are away from being a performer and touch into their likes and dislikes etc. Probably the three most famous people I have interviewed in the last 12 months are Paul Brett (guitarist with The Strawbs, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown to name but 2) Paul also has a range of signature guitars on sale internationally), The Strawbs were a chart topping band of the 70s with Union Man reaching #2; Tom Newman who produced Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells - the groundbreaking Virgin album of the early 70s. Tom is a multi – platinum producer; and finally actress and TV presenter Jenny Hanley Bond Girl, radio presenter and presenter of the children'

Wearable Artificial Kidney Could Replace Conventional Dialysis

A wearable artificial kidney could be developed as a viable, new dialysis technology that allows patients to be mobile and untethered during treatment, results of a US Food and Drug Administration-authorised clinical trial suggest.

The technology may become an alternative to conventional hemodialysis for people with end-stage kidney disease.

Present-day treatment generally requires three sessions a week on a stationary machine that restricts patients' ability to walk around while it is attached and running.

In contrast, a wearable device would allow patients to be mobile and untethered. It could also provide additional treatment benefits from longer sessions or more frequent days of dialysis.

The trial of a prototype for such a device was performed with seven patients at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

Those leading the trial included the inventor of the device, Wearable Artificial Kidney prototype, Victor Gura of Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles-read more