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Patient trapped in a 23-year 'coma' was conscious all along | Mail Online

2009-11-23T17:45:00.001+10:30

A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.

Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed.

He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said.

Quite astonishing. Based upon my experience with mental health professionals, this does not surprise me in the slightest.

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the-sauce.org: Sun Burn

2009-11-23T09:51:00.001+10:30

via atthesauce.blogspot.com

THE EVIL Sun front page showing NUM leader Arthur Scargill apparently giving a Nazi salute under the headline "Mine Fuhrer" has been revealed for the first time.

The-sauce.org has secured a world exclusive from a former mole at the News International printing plant in London's Bouverie Street.

The leak comes 25 years to the day after the hard-right tabloid first tried to tar the Marxist union leader as a Nazi.

The Sun front page never made the light of day.

Union members at the printers refused to publish the filthy slur and instead humiliated bullying editor Kelvin McKenzie.

They publicly shamed him by running across the splash: "Members of all The Sun production chapels refused to handle the Arthur Scargill picture and major headline on our lead story.

"The Sun has decided, reluctantly, to print the paper without either."

It was May 1984 and the height of the historic miners' strike.

Sun owner Rupert Murdoch wanted to thank PM Margaret Thatcher for smashing the Monopolies Commission so the foreigner could buy four British newspapers.

At the same time, the print unions were showing striking miners around the presses - and raising cash to fund the industrial action.

The printers knew if the miners lost they would be next.

SHOCK
Olly Duke, 57, worked at The Sun's art desk making up pages when his union "comrades" blocked the Hitler front page.

He was a member of the NUJ and the hard-left Socialist Workers' Party. He would have screaming rows with the editor.

Yesterday, from his home in the south of France, he told the-sauce.org: "The picture came through John Brown of the National Geographic Association and he refused to touch it.

"Arthur was waving to someone - there was no salute. A huge shock wave went through the offices when we stopped the page. We just wound not set that headline."Hard to imagine now, but very believable in Thatchers UK.

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Thierry Henri take a look at these

2009-11-22T08:16:00.001+10:30

via independent.co.uk

Thanks @Beaubodor

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How to Ride a Pony - The Oatmeal

2009-11-22T05:32:00.001+10:30

via theoatmeal.com

Just a little bit out there.

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Photo Hunt Birds

2009-11-21T12:49:00.001+10:30

Chickens occupy Spotty's Hutch, originally uploaded by theclutterbells.

Our Chickens occupy Spotty's Kennel.

Hacker and Applelby Still Popular Why Yes Minister is as true as ever - Telegraph

2009-11-21T09:16:00.001+10:30

via telegraph.co.uk

When Jonathan Lynn and I started writing Yes, Minister back at the end of the 1970s, we had no idea whether the television audience would find it funny. We did, however, think they might be interested in a series that took them behind the scenes of government – there had never been a TV comedy series set in Whitehall.

So from the very first episode we tried to make sure that all the details were as authentic as we could make them; obviously we included lots of things that never happened, but nothing that couldn’t happen. Our hope was that even if people didn’t laugh, they would still be interested enough to switch on again next week.

This brought an unexpected benefit. We discovered that the further you delved into the realities of government, the funnier it all became. Who could invent a plot in which a schizophrenic clambered over the walls of Buckingham Palace, climbed into the Queen’s bedroom, and cadged a cigarette off her? Impossible – until Michael Fagan did exactly that in 1982.

And even when it turned out that the British television audience got the joke, we didn’t expect it to go any further. Well, possibly to Australia, New Zealand and Canada, who had similar political systems, but that was about it.

Except that it wasn’t. In the end, 80 different countries took it, some such as Holland and India translating the scripts and producing their own versions. We even found, from Peter Ustinov, that Samizdat copies were circulating rapidly (and illegally) in Soviet Russia.

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Skywatch Friday

2009-11-20T06:33:00.000+10:30

Morning shot from our Front Door.

More at Skywatch Friday.

Sky TV - Scotland - Who needs HD with this lineup

2009-11-20T03:36:00.001+10:30

Sky are rumoured to be close to launching their own dedicated Scottish Channel later this month, and have previewed what they are intending to broadcast
Here's a selection of the listed programmes:
Sky Wan
9am News and whair it's pishin doon

9.30am How claty is yer hoose?

This week the ladies pay a visit to a man whose wife shot the craw only three days ago to find the entire hoose under five inches of stoor and the cludgy honkin o' pish
10am The Mags Hainey Show

Early mornin chat show hosted by big Mags Hainey in which neds and Sengas settle their petty differences by screaming obscenities and attacking each other with furniture for the amusement of the viewing public. This morning's episode is entitled "Whair's ma effin hoosekeepin money disappeared tae?"
12.30pm News and whair it's pishin doon

1pm Neeburs

Soap opera set in the village of Kinghorn in Fife. This week Archie accuses Morag of being in league with Lucifer and has her burned at the stake
2pm Film

Angels wi Manky Coupons
4pm Tam the Tank Engine

Tam goes aff the rails and the Fat Controller is chuffed tae bits
4.15pm Boab the Builder

Reality show where Boab is investigated by the Inland Revenue
6pm News and whair it's pishin doon

7pm Doaktir Whae

In this week's episode the Scottish time traveller takes the TARDIS back tae 1966 and breks Geoff Hurst's legs wae a sonic Glesca screwdriver
7.30pm Torn Faced Cockney Wankers

Eastenders wi' subtitles. In tonight's episode, Pauline gets her jotters fae the steamie while the rest o' the cast stoat aboot wi' faces the length o' Leith Walk
9pm Fitba Player's Burds

Drama surrounding the players of fourth division Auchtermuchty Rovers and their off-pitch antics. This week Boaby is worried that the club is facing relegation while Moira is gettin baw deep from the Aberfeldy Academicals goalie
10pm News and whair it's pishin doon

12.30am Merrit Wi Weans

Re-make of the popular American sit-com 'Married With Children.' In this week's episode, Al sits in front o' the telly scratchin his baws while Meg is still chokin on her Nat King Cole
1.30am The Beechgrove Back-Green

The boys plans tae dae up a gairdin in Niddrie are scuppered when local neds eff off wi the wheelbarra
2.15am Close Doon

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Police criticised for 93-page cycle guide - Telegraph

2009-11-19T07:26:00.001+10:30

via telegraph.co.uk

I wonder if PC Plod had to read this.

Thanks Mr Eugenides

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Face-Off With a Deadly Predator in the Antarctic

2009-11-18T10:08:00.001+10:30

via youtube.com

Swimming with Leopard Seals in the Antarctic. Very cool

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Global Warming Threatens Penguins - Photo Essays - TIME

2009-11-18T09:15:00.001+10:30

via time.com

I always loved Penguins during my trips to the zoo as a child. Sad to see their habitats being threatened.

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RIP Nien Cheng Author of Life and Death in Shanghai

2009-11-18T08:04:00.001+10:30

via telegraph.co.uk

Such grace after some of the horrors she lived through. Her book was on everybodys shelf when I lived in Singapore in the 90s.

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Women banned from wearing trousers in Paris - Telegraph

2009-11-18T07:15:00.001+10:30

via telegraph.co.uk

The 1800 rule stipulated than any Parisienne wishing to dress like a man "must present herself to Paris' main police station to obtain authorisation".

In 1892 it was slightly relaxed thanks to an amendment which said trousers were permitted "as long as the woman is holding the reins of a horse".

Then in 1909, the decree was further watered down when an extra clause was added to allow women in trousers on condition they were "on a bicycle or holding it by the handlebars".

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Saint Andrew - Dinna Ast Me (Eh Dinna Ken)

2009-11-17T06:27:00.001+10:30

via youtube.com

Me neether

Excellent talent from Dundee of all places.

Thanks Big Rab

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Brown to apologise to all children forced to grow up in the UK

2009-11-17T04:59:00.001+10:30

Gordon Brown is planning an apology to those children left to be raised in the UK instead of being offered the chance of living in a far nicer country, somewhere sunny.

Under the Child Migrants Programme - which ended just 40 years ago - many children were rejected and left to face a life of dreary weather, miserable citizens and truly terrible national sports teams.

59 year old Gerry Owen is one of the unfortunate children of the fifties left behind in the UK, and he told us, “I was born in 1950, and in 1959 my application to go ‘absolutely anywhere else at all’ was rejected out of hand.”

“Since then, I’ve been subjected to a miserable existence on these Isles, consisting mainly of drizzling grey monotony interspersed with abject disappointment after stunningly predictable abject disappointment.”

“It’s all the Government’s fault, and I still blame them for not sending me somewhere much, much nicer all those years ago.”

“The irony is, I’m a borderline alcoholic who genuinely loves cricket and utterly despises football, I’d have made a brilliant Australian.

The rest of Brown to apologise to all children forced to grow up in the UK

Chilling words that triggered the bloody massacre of clan MacDonald at Glencoe to go on display

2009-11-17T04:46:00.001+10:30

via thescotsman.scotsman.com

I still get grief about this even now being named Campbell. I have been to Glencoe many times and it is hard to think of a starker place for such a grim event.

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Glasgow Guidedog

2009-11-16T07:05:00.001+10:30

Download now or watch on posterous

glasgowguidedog.wmv (778 KB)

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Why was Enid Blyton so controversial? | nourishing obscurity

2009-11-16T07:02:00.001+10:30

via nourishingobscurity.com

Head of the BBC schools department Jean Sutcliffe said in an internal memo dated 1938: “My impression of her stories is that they might do for Children’s Hour but certainly not for Schools Dept, they haven’t much literary value.

“There is rather a lot of the Pinky-winky-Doodle-doodle Dum-dumm type of name – and lots of pixies – in the original tales.” She added that they were “competently written”.

For me, I don't remember the Golliwogs very well, but the Famous Five were pretty cool.

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With the Adelaide Christmas Pageant over time for some Christmas Lights

2009-11-15T06:29:00.001+10:30

via funmeme.com

Ha Ha

The street over from us really get into this sort of stuff. It is still incongruous for me with hot temperatures and winter snow themes. When I lived in Singapore I always though Orchard Road looked very incongruous with their over the top decorations and 30 degrees.

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Giant iceberg spotted off Australia

2009-11-15T06:17:00.001+10:30

via telegraph.co.uk

The ice chunk, measuring some 2,300 feet long with an estimated depth of more than 1,000 feet, caused a stir when it was sighted by experts based on Australia's remote Macquarie Island.

Drought over as icebergs come to the rescue?

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Photo Hunt Music

2009-11-14T18:49:00.003+10:30

Girls Rock, originally uploaded by theclutterbells.

Rock on Hannah

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My Political Ambitions Go Nowhere

2009-11-14T10:40:00.002+10:30

From our Scottish Correspondent, Big Rab

Bad luck on your result in the Glasgow North East by election Colin. I'm sure with a bit of effort we could have got you more than 13 votes!

Charlie Baillie - British National Party - 1,013 votes (4.92%)

William Bain - Labour - 12,231 (59.39%)

Eileen Baxendale - Liberal Democrats - 474 (2.30%)

Mev Brown - Independent - 32 (0.16%)

Colin Campbell - The Individuals Labour and Tory (Tilt) - 13 (0.06%)

Ruth Davidson - Conservatives - 1,075 (5.22%)

David Doherty - Scottish Greens - 332 (1.61%)

Mikey Hughes - Independent - 54 (0.26%)

David Kerr - SNP - 4,120 (20%)

Louise McDaid - Socialist Labour Party - 47 (0.23%)

Kevin McVey - Scottish Socialist Party - 152 (0.74%)

Tommy Sheridan - Solidarity - 794 (3.86%)

John Smeaton - Independent Backed by the Jury Team - 258 (1.25%)

Skywatch Friday

2009-11-13T06:32:00.000+10:30

Thebarton during our heatwave this week. Temperature has been above 35 degrees all week. Three days of 39 degrees and tomorrow it hits 40 degrees. Hottest November ever.

More skies here.

Flocking Birds Gallery by Richard Barnes Photography

2009-11-13T06:25:00.001+10:30

via richardbarnes.net

via Yorkshire Len

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Stunning Cassini Image to Knock Your Socks Off | Universe Today

2009-11-12T08:35:00.002+10:30

The moon Rhea hangs like a pendant against Saturn and its rings. Amazingly, this is a raw image straight from Cassini

Stunning Cassini Image to Knock Your Socks Off | Universe Today

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