SCHIZOPHRENIA

SCHIZOPHRENIA-80 previously unknown genes discovered by scientists.These are believed to be a reason people  are at  risk for SCHIZOPHRENIA.This was found in the worlds largest genetic study of disease putting on par with other medical conditions. link- large genes  find in schizophrenia -bbc-health

Two 8ft snakes found in children's playground

Two 8ft boa constrictors have been found close to a children’s playground in east London.

Police were called to Plashet Park in East Ham after numerous reports of two large snakes being spotted in the undergrowth.

Officers used a litter picker and a brown paper bag to retrieve the reptiles, which are non-venomous, but kill they prey by suffocation.

The snakes were taken to a local pet shop where they were identified as mature boa constrictors.

No one was hurt in the incident and police said they believed the snakes may have been released as unwanted pets.

HORSEFLY DON,T BOTHER ME

Dear Horsefly,I am sorry but your constant love bites are causing redness,pain and discomfort.We are going to have to end this relationship as i am fed up with you buzzing me every time i am out and about.So i hope this will help you understand why i wish not to see you anymore.yours Ghostman

DRUNK WASPS ARE HOOLIGANS

Wasps a getting drunk on fermented fruit and attacking people who disturb them.Nests of 20,000 wasps ,double the normal size and more hooligan like.Which in turn means sting send out signals to other wasps to join in -unsure if true

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And now for something completely familiar

Eric Idle's latest project, his long-awaited Monty Python musical, Spamalot, has singing cows, a killer rabbit, a legless knight, flatulent Frenchmen and young women demanding spankings. It is, he admits, "lovingly ripped off" from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which cost just £400,000 to make in 1975. The stage production is epic in scale, with direction by Mike Nichols, who won an Oscar for The Graduate. Investors, who have put up £6 million, are gambling that it will be as big a worldwide hit as The Producers, after a Chicago opening on Tuesday. Last week, tickets went on sale for a Broadway run in March, with Nichols saying: "I knew the material was hilarious and that I laughed at it all the time. But I still had to know that crucial thing: what is this show really all about?" Then Tim Curry, the actor who made his name as Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, walked onto the rehearsal room stage in New York. "About one minute and 15 seconds into the first reading, Tim pronounced his lines: 'I am King Arthur and these are the knights of the rhooond table.' And then I had it. "It was that upper-class accent that Tim knew to use instinctively. The way he pronounced that one word reminded me that everything English is, finally, about class. I knew where to go from that moment on." The biggest production number is a raucous version of We're Knights of the Round Table ("We dance when e'er we're able"), featuring Las Vegas-style dancing divas in body stockings. John Cleese is said to have taped "the voice of God", previously played by Graham Chapman, who died in 1989. Idle began working on the script from the moment he saw The Producers on its first night in New York. The surviving Pythons have a veto over any Python project. Idle waited until he had a draft script to show the others, and had recorded six versions of the songs. Terry Jones, co-director of the film, arranged a conference call, and a particular tune persuaded the others to approve the project - The Song That Goes Like This, a skit on Lloyd Webber ballads. It was agreed that while everybody provided constructive criticism, it was Idle's project. He said: "If it flops, they can just blame me." Jones said there was a feeling that Idle would not appreciate interference from "superannuated white-haired ex-Pythons". Nichols, 73, insisted that the show be more than a "Python Flying Circus". "There are some things you know will be there - killer rabbits - but you also need to feel that you're getting somewhere; that it isn't a random review." He hand-picked the stars. David Hyde Pierce, from the television show Frasier, plays Brave Sir Robin. A Python fan since childhood, the actor said he told his agent: "I don't care what the part is, I just want it." Hank Azaria, the voice of Moe the bartender in The Simpsons, is both Sir Lancelot and the French Taunter. Lancelot is thought to be more murderous than in the movie, as well as being sexually disorientated. Nichols said that, in explaining his approach, he told a friend: "You know how in the movie there's a cow that flies out of a castle and lands on a page? Well, in the musical, the cow has a singing part." With the script under wraps, there is no word on whether the cast will include the film's 142 Ecuadorian llamas. According to Idle, the movie, while dealing with an heroic theme, was really quite small in scale. "We couldn't afford armies or even horses - thank God for coconuts. That means most of the scenes can be fairly easily reconstructed on stage. "There are technical problems - just how do you lop off people's arms and legs on stage? But somebody else has to solve them. That's the great thing about being a writer." Idle, 61, picked the Camelot-pun title, it seems, both as a tribute to junk-mail and Spam tinned meat. Idle, born in South Shields and now living in Los Angeles, worked on the songs with composer John Du Prez, who played trumpet on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"which was sung by Idle in the crucifixion scene of The Life of Brian. Nichols sums up Spamalot as "strange", a show in which "you laugh and laugh, and at the same time you don't know why you are so moved." UK News News » In UK News Lightning storm in pictures William Hague in pictures Monty Python Live (Mostly):

The day grecians of Exeter kick started a football dynasty

As Exeter City mark the centenary of the club’s historic game against Brazil 100 years ago, Stuart James recounts the circumstances of the strange encounter Sport is full of strange co-incidences, quirky facts and bizarre anomalies. But few can be as extreme as the fact that Brazil, the five-times World champions and masters of football, played their first-ever competitive fixture against little old Exeter City. Exactly 100 years ago, the Grecians embarked on a long and arduous tour of South America. Their first game was in Argentina on June 14, where they lost 1-0 to a team called Norte in Buenos Aires. It was the first of eight games the Grecians played against clubs and representative teams from Argentina and it turned out to be the only game they lost. Six were won with the other a goalless stalemate with Argentinos. Across the border, Brazilian teams had been trying to get English clubs, regarded in the country as the ‘Gods of Football’ or ‘Fathers of the Game’ to play them for some time, but invitations to clubs like Southampton and Nottingham Forest had been politely declined. Not so by Exeter. Despite a gruelling month or so in Argentina, they agreed to extend their trip and play three further matches in Brazil. All three were to be played at the Laranjeiras Stadium in Rio de Janeiro and the third of those games was to be against Brasileiros, a Brazilian select XI, or Seleção, which remains the nickname of the Brazilian national side to this day. The Exeter team of 100 years ago were no mugs. In goal, for instance, was Dick Pym, who went on to play for Bolton Wanderers and England, but the tired and weary Grecians were no match in a rumbustious encounter that ended in a 2-0 win for the Seleção. Back then, the result was deemed quite a success for the Brazilian side as the excitable public, who had long pined for the opportunity to play against a professional English team, regarded the English as invincible. Over 3,000 packed into Laranjeiras Stadium to watch the game and witness a small-time club from Devon unwittingly kick-start one of the greatest footballing dynasties the game has ever seen. The Brazilian game went from strength to strength with the Seleção going on to win five World Cups – in 1958, 1962, 1970 1994 and 2002. However, their hopes of a sixth in their own country this summer ended in humiliation as the people’s favourites crashed out at the semi-final stage following a 7-1 mauling to Germany; a result that rocked the footballing world and left a nation shell-shocked. As well as their five titles, Brazil have twice been World Cup runners-up, but their brand of exciting attacking play and silky skills has endeared them into the hearts of football fans worldwide. By comparison, Exeter’s history has been far less glamorous. Their one notable piece of silverware came in 1990 when Terry Cooper guided the Grecians to the Fourth Division championship, although Paul Tisdale did lead Exeter to back-to-back promotions in 2008 and 2009, the first of those at the famous Wembley Stadium. Promotion has also been achieved in 1964 and 1977, while a goalless draw against the mighty Manchester United in a third-round FA Cup tie in 2005 felt every bit as good as winning a trophy when the full-time whistle blew. However, as is often the case in sport, there is always the ‘What if?’ scenario. The seeds for the future of Brazilian football had been sewn back in 1914, while the Exeter ship sailed home and into the breakout of the First World War. In fact, the Exeter party, which had left Brazil on July 22 aboard the SS Alcantara, had only reached Madeira when war with the Germans was declared. Their vessel, with its full cargo of bullion and frozen meat, was deemed a German target and on setting sail from Madeira for Lisbon and Vigo, the ship steamed at her utmost capacity, which was about 18 knots, and with its lights out. After the most arduous of journeys, the boat finally docked in Liverpool and the Exeter City players aboard faced targets of a different kind on returning to Devon. Deemed as young, fit and athletic, they were wanted for the ‘New Army’ and to fight in the fields, rather than play on them. At first, football continued with the message from the FA it was “business as usual” but such was the public outcry, backed by a shaming campaign by numerous newspapers of the time, that it was not until 1915 that football eventually ceased. Many of the Exeter party that travelled to South America signed up to fight in the war and either died or were so badly injured, they were never able to play football again. One hundred years on and the Grecians are returning to Brazil to mark the historic anniversary of that tour with a match against Fluminense tomorrow. The game will be played in that same Laranjeiras Stadium and will be kicked off using the same ball as the one used in 1914. But one thing the Grecians will hope for is that the next 100 years brings more fortune than it did the last time they returned from Brazil. Share Share Tweet Share Report this article Get Involved! Upload your pics and stories here. 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