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Potter ’stuntman’ badly injured

Friday, January 30th, 2009

A man is in hospital with serious back injuries after being injured on the set of the latest Harry Potter film.

Paramedics were called to Leavesden Studios near Watford, where Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is understood to be in production.

The man, in his 20s - who is a stuntman according to press reports levitra pries- was taken to hospital after Wednesday’s accident.

Warner Bros said he was not a member of the cast, and did not comment further “out of respect for his family”.

In a statement, the company added: “The person has been taken to hospital and we are awaiting further news.”

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An East of England Ambulance Service spokesman said: “Paramedics were called to Leavesden Studios… after a man in his 20s sustained a significant back injury.

“He was stabilised at the scene and taken to Watford General Hospital.”

The hospital refused to comment on the man’s condition, but said he had been transferred to another hospital.

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Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Affixa Integrates Gmail, Others with Your Desktop for Easy File Attachment [Downloads]

windows only: if you prefer web-based email like gmail or yahoo mail, affixa seamlessly bridges the recess between the trap and your desktop because of painless file attachments, mailto links, and more.

Affixa integrates webmail with every corner of your desktop. As you can see in the video, each time you encounter an email situation in Windows, Affixa lets you choose what email account you’d like to use—meaning that you can easily switch between sending an attachment via Outlook for work or your personal Gmail account, for example. Affixa will handle attachments you send to your email from the right-click menu or directly through any applications (like Word’s Email option). If your email client has limits on attachment size or file-type, Affixa can upload the attachment to previously mentioned file-sharing webapp Drop.io.

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Affixa also allows you to create “baskets” into which you can drag and drop any files, zip them up, and email them quickly and easily.

The application is actually an improved version of previously mentioned gAttach and yAttach, which brought much of the same functionality to Gmail and Yahoo mail accounts individually. If you use Gmail as your main email account, I can’t think of a good reason why you wouldn’t want to use Affixa.

Affixa is a free download for personal use, Windows only. If you want the full, unlimited functionality, you can upgrade to Affixa’s subscription version for rougly $3.

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Monday, January 26th, 2009

Graham Lawton Was Wrong

There.

How’s the taste of your own medicine?

Yup, there was an editorial meeting. Coturnix, coturnix, @coturnix, BoraZ, Bora Zivkovic and @borazivkovic were there. I was there, too, and I could have said something, but I decided to remain silent as the traffic of this blog, which - cha-chink - means more money, is more important than accuracy.

Very few readers will read your article. But everyone will see the cover.

Very few people will read this post to the end, especially the links on the bottom that really contain the meat of the argument. But everyone will see this post title in their feeds.

Graham, you know print is swiftly dying and that journalism is moving to the Web, don’t you? Do you understand that this means that in a year or two you will have to come here and play with the Big Boys? Do you understand that all the silly comments you plastered all over the blogs will be remembered? And if not remembered, easy to find - this blog has bigger Google juice than The New Scientist, you know?

Do you understand that in your future transition to online journalism you will have to abandon all the lies you were taught in J-school? That you will need to upgrade your journalistic ethics in order to match the higher ethics of the blogosphere?

Why are you trying to start your career on a wrong foot?

Graham, and someone needs to tell you now before it’s too late, that you don’t know shit about science. And that you’ll have a steep hill to climb in order to start trying to play on the level field with people who actually know their stuff?

You just curmudgeoned yourself.

Is that a new term for you?

Congratulations! Your name will now be forever associated with the likes of (yes, study all those links carefully!) Skube, Mulshine, Johnson, Cohen, Boxer, Keen, Siegel, Henry and several other laughingstock curmudgeons from the journalistic Jurassic Park?

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Now, calm down, I was just joking, just like you were in all those comments everywhere. Heh, some light-hearted blogospheric banter. Ha-ha. Can’t be mad about that, can you?

Now sit back and learn by reading, very carefully, what people with actual expertise have written (including people with expertise in the comments) and learn from your mistake as not to make it again:

Darwin Was Wrong? Why’s Graham so Glum: Lawton Critiqued Was Darwin Wrong? Darwin was wrong…ish Explaining New Scientist cover

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Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Vamp it up in Vintage

i stumbled upon leluxe clothing and their fall-on-your-apparently stunning vintage inspired dresses at a costumers’ sale and could no more than restrain myself from buying up a closetful of the beauties. if i were having a vintage wedding, i’d be all at an end these for bridesmaids disposed to bees to honey. did someone say rehearsal dinner? i …

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Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Use The Fine Art of Storytelling To Raise a Frugal Child

photo by lori greig (hi readers - normally the columnists’ weekly posts will be published on wednesdays. but since i’ve got a week of giveaways starting this monday, i thought i’d publish maya’s column a few days early! enjoy.) the following is written by green and frugal columnist maya bisineer. my toddlers never took to “no” … related posts:

Supernanny: UK Twin Trouble!

supernanny heads to her homeland this week on abc, to help out some ally brits with their brats. steve and ann have two sets of twins, age 2 and 4. mom and dad nevertheless treat them like babies, feeding them bottles and mushy food. all of the kids wear diapers at endlessly because it’s just … related posts:

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Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Blagojevich’s Lead Attorney To Resign

Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s lead attorney says he plans to resign from his criminal case.

Genson’s decision Friday comes one day after Blagojevich’s defense team sent mixed signals over whether the governor would file a lawsuit to block his impeachment trial in the state Senate.

Defense attorney Samuel E. Adam told The Associated Press Thursday that a lawsuit could be filed with the Illinois Supreme Court within days, pending a final decision. But Genson told the Chicago Tribune no lawsuit would be filed.

Genson is one of Chicago’s best known lawyers whose clients include rock star R. Kelly and Canadian-born press lord Conrad Black.

He said after Blagojevich’s impeachment in the House that the Senate trial’s outcome is a “foregone conclusion.”

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Saturday, January 24th, 2009

On Nature News

Old plutonium found in dump Weapons-grade material discovered at Hanford nuclear site.

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Europe failing to meet research targets Europe could struggle to keep up with emerging economies.

North American tree deaths accelerate Mortality increase correlates with climate change.

Atom takes a quantum leap Ytterbium ion is the first element to be teleported over a distance.

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Neighborhood

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Kanye West Felt ‘So Good’ To Perform For President Obama

During inaugural Youth Ball performance, West changed some lyrics to honor the new president.By James Montgomery

kanye west performs at the “be the change” youth inaugural ball on tuesday photo: up micelotta/ getty images

Kanye West was clearly feeling the historical magnitude of President Obama’s inauguration when he took the stage at the “Be the Change” Youth Ball on Tuesday (January 20), and he decided to tell the crowd about it. After all, it’s in his blood.

“It feels so good to be standing here … My mom would be so proud right now, to see her baby boy performing the #1 song in the country for our new African-American president,” he said during an instrumental break in “Heartless,” the latest single from his 808s & Heartbreak album. “Being that she got arrested for being involved in the sit-ins at age 6, and my grandfather drove the first car in the marches out of Oklahoma, to see this day …”

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He trailed off from there, then began singing a slightly changed version of the “Heartless” chorus, one that paid tribute not just to the civil-rights struggle, but to our new commander in chief.

“In the night I hear them talk/ The greatest story ever told,” he sang. “Somewhere far along this road, a new soul: Obama …”

West’s mother, Donda, was active in the civil-rights movement in the 1960s, and served as the chairwoman of Chicago State University’s English department until 2004. She passed due to complications from surgery in 2007.

It was a rare moment of gravitas in what was a decidedly celebratory set. Decked out in wraparound shades, a tuxedo and pocket square, West performed a medley of hits that included “Touch the Sky” — which Obama singled out as a favorite in an interview with Blender magazine last year — “Stronger” (on which he ordered the crowd to “put your hands up for Obama!”) and a verse of Estelle’s hit “American Boy,” calling Obama “the real American boy,” a shout-out to his newly minted status as the face of 21st century America.

Watch “Be the Change: Live From the Inaugural” online now, and come back Thursday for the full performances from Kanye West, Kid Rock and Fall Out Boy. Stick with us for wall-to-wall coverage of the inauguration and of the scenes in Washington, D.C., New Orleans and Kenya.

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Study: Ridiculous US Movie Theater Violence Up 300% In Last Month [Crime And Punishment]

we may be set apart in the unapproachable of park see, but at least we can reasonably assume a relatively low risk of shootings, stabbings and other moviegoing killing plaguing other parts of the country.

After a protracted lull, theater violence experienced an uptick buy cialis last month when the heroic Joseph Cialella quieted a mouthy fellow viewer at a Philadelphia screening of Benjamin Button. And last Friday, police evacuated 700 filmgoers following a shooting in a Greensboro multiplex where Notorious played on several screens (and where the film’s leading man, Jamal Woolard, was in attendance). And yesterday, right on cue, the knives came out in New York:

A Long Island security guard at a movie theater in Valley Stream has been arrested for stabbing a moviegoer, police said.

Police said the security guard, Ricardo Singh, 24, was directing patrons to exit the theater after a showing of My Bloody Valentine in 3D when he got into an argument with a 16-year-old who wanted to wait inside for his ride. The argument escalated into pushing and shoving and Singh allegedly took out a folding knife and stabbed the teenager in the stomach, police said.

And after all that, the victim had to wait inside for his ride anyway — an ambulance that hauled him off to get six stitches. Singh was arrested and charged with assault, just another sign warning haunted Americans of the dangers of imitative violence afflicting our cheap viagra culture. As such, we’d advise avoiding all of these films this weekend, and skip Hotel For Dogs for good measure. And if a race-riot slaughter looks imminent at Slumdog Millionaire, try Paul Blart: Mall Cop. You’ll be in good hands.


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Goodbye george bush

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Proposed Iraq Psyop: No More Boring Leaflets

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Billingslea_memo_2As part of a 247-page document dump on the Iraq war, the Department of Defense last week made public some interesting psychological operations leaflets that were proposed for the impending military campaign. The Memory Hole has put together an excellent gallery of the leaflets, which were apparently never dropped.

The Pentagon also released a memo (reproduced here) by Marshall Billingslea, then the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict, to Doug Feith, the Pentagon’s former policy chief. “Doug,” he writes, “We have been sort of underwhelmed by the quality of the leaflets dropped over Iraq. Most of them are boring.”

Billingslea proposes sending the new leaflet designs to U.S. Central Command as “food for thought.”

U.S. forces dropped millions of “surrender” leaflets during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. But the classic psyops tool has also been used extensively in the subsequent counterinsurgency. During fighting in Sadr City this spring, U.S. and Iraqi helicopters blanketed the area with leaflets encouraging local residents to turn against Shia militia members.

[IMAGE: U.S. Department of Defense via The Memory Hole]

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