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Airplane ban on liquids set to be relaxed Last updated at 12:45pm on 2nd November 2006 A ban on carrying liquids on board flights will be relaxed next week, it was confirmed. Passengers are to be allowed to carry small bottles of toiletries as long as they are contained in a clear resealable plastic bag from November 6, the Department for Transport (DfT) said. Baggage rules have been tightened at UK airports since August 10 when an alleged plot to blow up planes was thwarted. The restrictions have since been eased gradually, but the ban on liquids has remained - although passengers leaving UK airports for non-USA destinations have been allow…

Pensioner ordered out of restaurant for wearing pink M&S 'hoodie' by COLIN FERNANDEZ Last updated at 22:00pm on 1st November 2006 A pensioner has spoken of her anger how she was ordered out of a restaurant for wearing a Marks & Spencers pink hooded top. Corinne Chapman, 61, had just sat down to eat on Tuesday when the manager told her to take off her top or leave the restaurant. A shocked Mrs Chapman, said: "The manager asked me if I was going to take my hoodie off. I replied 'what hoodie' as the top I was wearing was a pink cardigan made of cotton waffle from the Marks and Spencers Limited collection which is not cheap." "Admittedly it does have…

Thugs consider Asbos a 'diploma', says report By JAMES SLACK Last updated at 08:49am on 2nd November 2006 Hoodies: Half of all orders given to the teenage tearaways are breached Young thugs consider Asbos a 'diploma' in offending which they can breach repeatedly and with impunity, a devastating report reveals. The Youth Justice Board found half of all orders given to the teenage tearaways are breached - in some cases six times or more each - but most are simply let-off by the courts. Only six per cent were jailed for flouting their Asbo. And, even when they were punished for committing a new crime at the same time, only 37 per cent were sent d…

Only one in five state schools makes its pupils learn a language Last updated at 09:46am on 1st November 2006 Damage is being done to Britain's future economic competitiveness Four out of five state schools no longer require GCSE pupils to learn a foreign language, a damning new survey reveals. Experts warned that the figures, published today in the National Centre for Languages (CiLT) annual Language Trends Survey, showed damage was being done to Britain's future economic competitiveness. The survey, regarded as the most authoritative picture of language learning, showed that private schools - which educate only seven per cent of all children…

TELEVISION personality Axle Whitehead has been rebuked by Network Ten after exposing his penis at the Australian Recording Industry (ARIA) Awards. The incident was not telecast on Network Ten, and it was unclear how many of the 10,000 people, including young music fans, who were at the Acer Arena in Sydney last night saw it. Whitehead, who has hosted Ten's Video Hits for two years, was on-stage presenting an award to hip-hop outfit Hilltop Hoods with radio jock Jabba, when he exposed himself. He also simulated masturbation on the ARIA trophy as the winners made their way to the stage. "I was shocked that he did it," said one guest w…

Houston, our tapes have gone missing Search is on for historic TV footage of mankind's first landing on the Moon Andrew Gumbel / London Independent | August 13 2006 Houston, we have a problem. There is probably no artefact in the history of space exploration more precious than the first television images of the Moon captured by Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronauts as they disembarked from their lunar module in July 1969. Unfortunately, the magnetic tapes of those images have gone missing. Worse still, they appear to have been missing for at least 30 years - and nobody, until now, even noticed. The man who devised the lunar camera for the mission, a retir…

Exposed: The tan-addict Britons Last updated at 10:55am on 1st November 2006 Mandy Sherwin has spent £30,000 on tanning A woman tells today how she has spent more than £30,000 on using sunbeds. Mandy Sherwin, 34, tops up her tan six times a week after becoming hooked on the practice when she was 15. She is one of a growing number of "tanorexics" - people for whom tanning has become a dangerous obsession - featured in a BBC 1 documentary to be shown tonight. She admits having had a skin cancer scare but insists: "If we listened to everything we should not do, we would never do anything." The programme, Tantastic, also features "Solar Sid…

Exam chiefs ridiculed for allowing 'text speak' English answers Last updated at 11:16am on 1st November 2006 Students would be given marks if expressing a 'valid idea' in text speak Exam chiefs were branded "ridiculous" today after admitting that English answers written in text message language will be acceptable as long as they are correct. The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) said the use of phrases like "2b r nt 2b" or "i luv u" in exam papers would be allowed as long as candidates showed they understood the subject. But politicians today condemned the practice amid fears about the literacy levels of school leavers. The admiss…

Music downloaded from iTunes can only be played on an iPod The code that prevents music downloaded from Apple's iTunes store being played on any portable player other than an iPod has been "cracked". Apple has not commented on claims that Jon Lech Johansen has "reverse engineered" the FairPlay system. Prominent hacker Mr Johansen has made a name circumventing software used to restrict the use of digital media. His company, DoubleTwist, said that it planned to license the code to other digital music player manufacturers. "There's a certain amount of trouble that Apple can give us, but not enough to stop this," Monique Farantzos, managing…

seriously, i was living there for a quite long time and i know that people are quite temperamental, but this is just worse than anything i've previosuly expected... this is how they celebrated the anniversary of the 56's revolution on Monday: http://index.hu/politika/belfold/2006/elkurtuk/videok/?vid=okt23_harc http://index.hu/politika/belfold/2006/elkurtuk/videok/?vid=okt23_tank http://index.hu/politika/belfold/2006/elkurtuk/videok/?vid=okt23_hajnal more videos and the antecedents on the same page P.S if you wouldnt' know why is all this situation: a tape on which the PM Ferenc Gyurcsany is lying about the economical situation of Hungary has leaked wee…

does anybody know a good ( free ? ) music file organizer or something like that?:confused: i have like hundreds of bootlegs and the problem is that i use windows media player , and i don't feel like importing them al , and have an unclear overview wich drives me crazy. :shocked2: I hope someone can help me :smug:

does anyone know a good audio stream ripper? so i can record music from myspace for example can anyone help me, i downloaded like 8 different programs but i can't record more than 1 minute with those trial versions thanks in advance;)

Are Schools The New Juvenile Court? A couple of stories that I ran across, yesterday had me questioning the role of public schools in determining how justice is served to students that attend. There has been some news about new policies that have been introduced by schools in the Indianapolis area. Schools will expel or suspend students for things that do not even happen at school. Anything that student writes or posts online; blogs, posts on MySpace or FaceBook, photos, movies, and I assume anything that is posted elsewhere, like forums or social news sites (as long as the poster can be identified), can be used against them at school. Who actually determines that t…

Lady Liberty Not a Welcome Mat By Brenda Walker Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on July 4, 2003 Great icons may suffer great misunderstandings in which erroneous mythology grows to obliterate the real meaning of an important symbol. Probably the most misunderstood image in America is the Statue of Liberty, which is surely burdened with more wrong ideas than any other symbol in our history. First and foremost, Lady Liberty was never designed as a welcome mat for immigrants, those huddled masses about whom we hear so much sentimentality. The real name of the statue is "Liberty Enlightening the World" which states the true meaning. Indeed, the sculpt…

Most Compelling TV Comment Since Murrow......... ...That's a pretty strong statement, I realize, but Wednesday night's "Special Comment" by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on the loss of habeas corpus protections lives up to the billing. On his "Countdown" show last night (Oct. 18, 2006), Olbermann delivered an eloquent explanation of why George Bush's signing of the Military Commission Act on Tuesday is such a betrayal of American values. Olbermann's "Special Comment" was well-researched, grounded in more than 200 years of American experiments-gone-bad with restricting rights of people under suspicion in times of alleged foreign dangers, dating back to John Adams' Alie…

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It's official: Women more grumpy than men in the morning Last updated at 22:00pm on 25th October 2006 Talk to the hand: Women are more grumpy than men in the morning Mabe it's that withering look she gives you as she clatters her coffee cup or perhaps she's just plain snappy, but men have for years bemoaned the perils of early mornings with their better halves. Millions of chaps across the country have come to agree that the best way to avoid the outbreak of World War Three over breakfast is to keep well away until the bad tempered creature that came from beneath the duvet (aka the wife) lightens up a bit. New research has confirmed they have e…

Muslim leader blames women for sex attacks Richard Kerbaj October 26, 2006 THE nation's most senior Muslim cleric has blamed immodestly dressed women who don't wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned "meat" that attracts voracious animals. In a Ramadan sermon that has outraged Muslim women leaders, Sydney-based Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali also alluded to the infamous Sydney gang rapes, suggesting the attackers were not entirely to blame. While not specifically referring to the rapes, brutal attacks on four women for which a group of young Lebanese men received long jail sentences, Sheik Hilali said there were women who "sway su…

Two burglars who were caught by a homeowner ransacking his home live on the internet have been sentenced. John Ellison, 52, from Lancaster, was alerted by his home security system as he holidayed in Spain and watched live CCTV footage on his laptop computer. Magistrates sentenced Mark Johnson, 46, from Lancaster, to six months for the burglary and six months for an unrelated assault. Ian McClements, 20, of Morecambe, was sentenced to custody for four months. Johnson, of Elgin Street, and McClements, of Arnside, Regent Caravan Park, admitted burglary at a previous hearing. The pair shouted insults and threats as they were led away at Lancaster Magistrates' Court. J…

Why thousands are having sex while they sleep Last updated at 11:46am on 26th October 2006 Disturbed sleep: Sexsomniacs are more common than medical researchers previously thought Thousands of people are having sex - while they are asleep, an internet survey has revealed. The research reveals that so-called sex-somniacs - who have sex romps while they doze - are more common than medical reports might suggest. As yet there is no cure for the condition, which often leads to difficulties in relationships. "It really bothers me that I can't control it," Lisa Mahoney told New Scientist magazine. "It scares me because I don't think it has anything t…

I am going to give reasons proving The U.S. Govt did it, how they did it, and at the end I am going to give reasons why they did it. 1. Operation Northwoods, "N E W Y O R K, May 1, 2001 In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.": http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&pa...id=92662&page=1 2. Alex Jones Predicts Attack (Mentioned on FOX news): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8116395518760933323&q=alex+jones+predicts+attack&hl=en 3. God Help Us: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=20241985652…

Energy-wasting Britons ranked the worst in Europe Last updated at 10:39am on 23rd October 2006 One of the worst energy wasting habits is over-filling the kettle when making tea British people are the worst energy wasters in Europe, while Germans are the most efficient according to a survey of 5,000 people across the continent. The research, compiled by the Energy Saving Trust, found that UK citizens admitting to 32 energy wasting actions a a week on average, more than twice as many as the efficient Germans. See also £200 charges for not recycling "The UK is at the bottom of the energy efficiency league compared to (the) other European…

Translating computer could spell the end of interpreters Last updated at 19:00pm on 25th October 2006 Lost in translation: A translating computer could have worked wonders at Fawlty Towers For those who find themselves stammering gibberish whenever they go abroad, help could soon be at hand. Scientists have developed an automatic translator that lets anyone speak a foreign language. The device means people can mouth a phrase or sentence in English only for the words to come out in Spanish, French, German or whichever tongue they may prefer. The idea - which would get rid of the need for an interpetor or foreign dictionary whilst abroad - …

The German Defense Ministry said Wednesday it is investigating an incident in which two Israeli fighter jets allegedly fired shots and dropped flares near a German warship patrolling the Lebanese coast as part of a peacekeeping force. German officials said the planes — two F-16s — fired two shots and released the flares, which can be used as a defense measure against heat-seeking missiles, said a ministry spokesman. He did not identify the vessel.Israeli officials deny that the jets fired shots at the German ship. The Israeli Defense Ministry said in a statement that Defense Minister Amir Peretz spoke by telephone Wednesday evening to German Defense Minister Franz Josef…

This is a thread Fir The St. Louis Cardinals (My home team) they are playing the Mets tommorow for the first game of tthe National League championship series. You Can also talk about other baseball here to... is anyone here rooting for the cards this year?