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14:25:57 01/03/12
City of Rats - Trailer 2
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Celebrating it's 25 year anniversary, Slam City Skates are proud to present "City Of Rats", a Film by Henry Edwards-Wood featuring the Slam City Family alongside...
Karim Bakhtaoui
Daniel "Snowy" Kinloch
Rory Milanes
Lucien Clarke
Nick Jensen
Steph Morgan
Casper Brooker
Neil Smith
Jin Shimizu
Joey Pressey
Olly Todd
Scott Howes
Rob Mathieson
Danny Brady
Darius Trabalza
John Tanner
Filmed predominantly on the streets of London Town.
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17:00:55 12/21/11
Gingrich Just the Latest Republican to Threaten Judges
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"Judicial activism" is in the eye of the beholder. Threatening judges is not. That explains why even Michael Mukasey and Alberto Gonzales , former Bush Attorneys General and ardent defenders of detainee torture and illicit domestic surveillance, denounced Newt Gingrich's assault on the federal bench as "dangerous, ridiculous, totally irresponsible, outrageous, off-the-wall and would reduce the entire judicial system to a spectacle." Sadly, Gingrich has plenty of company among conservatives threatening judges. As the dangerous rhetoric of John Cornyn, Tom Delay and a host of other Republican officeholders and propagandists shows, judicial intimidation is now standard fare for many of the leading lights of the GOP.
On Face the Nation Sunday, Gingrich the fading frontrunner told CBS News host Bob Schieffer he wouldn't hesitate to send the Capitol police or U.S. marshals to round up judges with whom he disagreed and force them to respond to subpoenas. As McClatchy reported Saturday: >
In order to restore balance between Congress, the White House, and the courts, Gingrich recommended ignoring rulings, impeaching judges, subpoenaing justices to have them explain their rulings and, as a last resort, abolishing the courts altogether... >
"I was frankly just fed up with elitist judges imposing secularism on the country and fundamentally changing the American Constitution," Gingrich told reporters, adding that "it was clear to me that you have a judicial psychology run amok, and there has to be some method of bringing balance back to the three branches."
During the height of the Terri Schiavo controversy in 2005, some Republican leaders darkly suggested what one of those methods might be.
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), himself a former Texas Supreme Court Justice, has been at the forefront of GOP advocacy of violence towards members of the bench whose rulings part ways with conservative orthodoxy. Back in 2005, Cornyn was one of the GOP standard bearers in the conservative fight against so-called "judicial activism" in the wake of the Republicans' disastrous intervention in the Terri Schiavo affair . On April 4th, Cornyn took to the Senate floor to issue a not-too-thinly veiled threat to judges opposing his reactionary agenda. Just days after the murders of judge in Atlanta and another's family members in Chicago, Cornyn offered his endorsement of judicial intimidation: >
"I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country...And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence."
Facing criticism for his remarks seemingly endorsing right-wing retribution against judges, Cornyn held his ground . "I didn't make the link," he said on Fox News Sunday, adding with a note of sarcasm: >
"It was taken out of context. I regret it was taken out of context and misinterpreted."
As it turns out, Cornyn was merely echoing the words of the soon-to-be indicted House Majority Leader Tom Delay. On March 31st, Delay issued a statement regarding the consistent rulings in favor of Michael Schiavo by all federal and state court judges involved: >
"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today."
The impact of tacit conservative endorsement of violence against judges cannot be dismissed. After all, it extends to members of the Supreme Court of the United States. In March 2006, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed that she and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor were the targets of death threats . On February 28th, 2005, the marshal of the Court informed O'Connor and Ginsburg of an Internet posting citing their references to international law in Court decisions (a frequent whipping boy of the right) as requiring their assassination: >
"This is a huge threat to our Republic and Constitutional freedom...If you are what you say you are, and NOT armchair patriots, then those two justices will not live another week."
Neither O'Connor nor Ginsburg are shy about making the connection between Republican rhetoric of judicial intimidation and the upswing in threats and actual violence against judges. Ginsburg noted that they "fuel the irrational fringe" O'Connor blamed Cornyn and his fellow travelers for "creating a culture" in which violence towards judges is merely another political tactic: >
"It gets worse. It doesn't help when a high-profile senator suggests a 'cause-and-effect connection' [between controversial rulings and subsequent acts of violence.]"
When anthrax spores were mailed to the Supreme Court in 2001, Americans could be forgiven for speculating on the ideological persuasion of the culprit. Aided by best-selling conservative author and media personality Ann Coulter , who joked in January 2006, "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," the right-wing endorsement of retribution against judges increasingly permeates the culture.
Just ask Judge Reggie Walton. A federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Walton was picked by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to serve on the FISA court which must approve government requests for domestic electronic surveillance. But when Dick Cheney's chief-of-staff Scooter Libby was convicted in his court in 2007, Judge Walton received death threats : >
"I received a number of angry, harassing mean-spirited phone calls and letters. Some of those were wishing bad things on me and my family."
One of those seemingly wishing bad things on judges is Montana Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg . Just weeks after the Tucson slaughter that claimed the life of circuit judge John Roll , Rehberg responded to a recent ruling by declaring he wanted to " put some of these judicial activists on the Endangered Species list ": >
"Environmental obstructionists found a federal judge in Missoula that was willing to ignore the scientific evidence as well as the expert opinions of on-the-ground wildlife managers here in Montana. And he ruled last August that the grey wolf had to remain on the Endangered Species List.! >
When I first heard his decision, like many of you I wanted to take action immediately. I asked: how can we put some of these judicial activists on the Endangered Species List? I am still working on that!"
As are, in myriad other ways, many of his GOP allies. By proposing to abolish the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals , Newt Gingrich was hardly the first Republican to call for simply ending jurisdiction for the federal courts across a broad swath of issues. Even after the calamitous intervention in the Schiavo imbroglio, conservative stalwarts continued to turn to "court-stripping" as a favorite tactic. As the Eagle Forum's Phyllis Schlafly put it in 2006, "The American people are waiting for this year's Congress to pass legislation defining the jurisdiction of the federal courts so that supremacist judges will not be able to ban the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments, the Boy Scouts, or the traditional definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman." On terror detainees, the EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases and so much more, Republicans want eliminate the prospect of future rulings with which they might disagree.
In 2008, former Supreme Court Justice and Reagan appointee Sandra Day O'Connor wrote, "What worries me is the manner in which politically motivated interest groups are attempting to interfere with justice." As O'Connor explained the next year to Jon Stewart of The Daily Show , that threat prompted her to launch a new online civics education project: >
"Well, what I became aware of increasingly in those last years was all the criticism of judges across America. We heard a lot in Congress and in state legislature. We heard a lot about "activist judges," didn't we? "Secular, godless humanists trying to tell us all what to do." I mean, that was what we were hearing. And I just didn't see it that way, and I thought perhaps a lot of Americans had stopped understanding about the three branches of government."
Americans, that is, like Newt Gingrich and many of his friends in the Republican Party.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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16:38:36 04/14/11
Authors@Google: TC Boyle
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Authors@Google: TC Boyle
Warning: This talk contains mature language. When the Killing's Done is my thirteenth novel, published by Viking in February of 2011. The novel takes up some of the environmental themes of earlier novels such as A Friend of the Earth and The Tortilla Curtain,and stories like 'Carnal Knowledge,' 'Top of the Food Chain,' 'Tooth and Claw' and a host of others. It is set in the past decade on the California Channel Islands, where a rather testy turf war was fought between animal rights activists and the biologists of the National Park Service and the Nature Conservancy over the elimination of non-native species of plants and animals, and this provided the inspiration for the book. In fact, I still preserve a yellowing newspaper headline from six or seven years ago (it's pinned beneath a magnet on the refrigerator door), which reads: EAGLES ARRIVE AS PIGS ARE KILLED, a reference to the reintroduction of the bald eagle and the eradication of the feral pig. In my telling, the animal rights activists, led by Dave La Joy, a local businessman, and his folksinger inamorata, Anise Reed, are opposed to the taking of life under any circumstances, while the more practical people of the Park Service, under the direction of the biologist Alma Boyd Takesue, favor elimination of the aliens in the interest of preserving the native species. Thus, for instance, the rats which prey on native ground-nesting birds must go, as must the sheep and feral pigs, which denude the hillsides. What this ... From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 1066 12 ratings Time: 45:52 More in People & Blogs
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16:38:36 04/14/11
Authors@Google: TC Boyle
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Authors@Google: TC Boyle
Warning: This talk contains mature language. When the Killing's Done is my thirteenth novel, published by Viking in February of 2011. The novel takes up some of the environmental themes of earlier novels such as A Friend of the Earth and The Tortilla Curtain,and stories like 'Carnal Knowledge,' 'Top of the Food Chain,' 'Tooth and Claw' and a host of others. It is set in the past decade on the California Channel Islands, where a rather testy turf war was fought between animal rights activists and the biologists of the National Park Service and the Nature Conservancy over the elimination of non-native species of plants and animals, and this provided the inspiration for the book. In fact, I still preserve a yellowing newspaper headline from six or seven years ago (it's pinned beneath a magnet on the refrigerator door), which reads: EAGLES ARRIVE AS PIGS ARE KILLED, a reference to the reintroduction of the bald eagle and the eradication of the feral pig. In my telling, the animal rights activists, led by Dave La Joy, a local businessman, and his folksinger inamorata, Anise Reed, are opposed to the taking of life under any circumstances, while the more practical people of the Park Service, under the direction of the biologist Alma Boyd Takesue, favor elimination of the aliens in the interest of preserving the native species. Thus, for instance, the rats which prey on native ground-nesting birds must go, as must the sheep and feral pigs, which denude the hillsides. What this ... From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 1066 12 ratings Time: 45:52 More in People & Blogs
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22:00:00 01/17/11
Episode 257: The Weirdest of CES 2011
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Andy and Sean run down their favorite weird gadgets and gear of CES 2011. Every year, in among the new, the shiny, the innovative and the interesting there's a slew of stuff that can only fairly be called strange.
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22:00:00 01/17/11
Episode 257: The Weirdest of CES 2011
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Andy and Sean run down their favorite weird gadgets and gear of CES 2011. Every year, in among the new, the shiny, the innovative and the interesting there's a slew of stuff that can only fairly be called strange.
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20:45:17 01/17/11
Episode 257: The Weirdest of CES 2011
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Andy and Sean run down their favorite weird gadgets and gear of CES 2011. Every year, in among the new, the shiny, the innovative and the interesting there's a slew of stuff that can only fairly be called strange.
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02:57:02 01/13/11
Arts Fund Expo @ Art Basel Miami Featuring White Walls Gallery And Warholian Com
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Follow Warholian.com on Facebook at: http://www.Facebook.com/WarholianFan One of the more impressive tent events at Art Basel Miami Beach this year was The Arts Fund Expo curated by White Walls Gallery out of San Francisco. Situated in the amazing W Hotel South Beach - this event offered a level of class and sophistication that others in the area could only dream of. The official tent space was located right beside the W's outdoor pool, and offered visitors a chance to see some of the best artistic talent from around the globe. The impressive show featured established street artists such as Dan Witz, Blek le Rat, Eddie, and ABOVE. These are some true power players in the street art game, and was a testament to the curatorial power Justin Giarla brought to the show. Read the rest of the story here: warholian.com/?p=1604
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15:21:36 01/11/11
Infested!- Giant Rat Invasion
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Rats are among the most resillient mammal species on the planet. They are capable of reproducing 2,000 times in a single year and up to 14,000 times in their lifespan!
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22:00:00 12/27/10
Episode 254: The 2010 Lab Rats Awards!
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2010 has been a busy year, full of gadgets, software, viral events and intrigue. In this capper to the 2010 Lab Rats season, Sean and Andy hand out awards for Smartphone of the Year, App of the Year, Device of the Year, Viral Event of the Year, and Web Gaffe of the Year.
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22:00:00 12/27/10
Episode 254: The 2010 Lab Rats Awards!
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2010 has been a busy year, full of gadgets, software, viral events and intrigue. In this capper to the 2010 Lab Rats season, Sean and Andy hand out awards for Smartphone of the Year, App of the Year, Device of the Year, Viral Event of the Year, and Web Gaffe of the Year.
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22:00:00 12/27/10
Episode 254: The 2010 Lab Rats Awards!
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2010 has been a busy year, full of gadgets, software, viral events and intrigue. In this capper to the 2010 Lab Rats season, Sean and Andy hand out awards for Smartphone of the Year, App of the Year, Device of the Year, Viral Event of the Year, and Web Gaffe of the Year.
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22:00:00 11/29/10
Episode 250: Lab Rats 2010 Holiday Gift Guide
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It's that time of the year again! Sean and Andy show off some of their favourite gift suggestions for the season, including an e-book reader, a turbocharged clock radio, a 3D camera, and a jacket that holds all your gadgets...and much more!
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22:00:00 11/29/10
Episode 250: Lab Rats 2010 Holiday Gift Guide
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It's that time of the year again! Sean and Andy show off some of their favourite gift suggestions for the season, including an e-book reader, a turbocharged clock radio, a 3D camera, and a jacket that holds all your gadgets...and much more!
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19:18:08 11/27/10
Episode 250: Lab Rats 2010 Holiday Gift Guide
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It's that time of the year again! Sean and Andy show off some of their favourite gift suggestions for the season, including an e-book reader, a turbocharged clock radio, a 3D camera, and a jacket that holds all your gadgets...and much more!
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21:00:00 11/26/10
High Cholesterol And Cognition, New Biopsy Technology, Personalized Cancer Treatment Vaccine (video)
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(Nov 26, 2010 - Insidermedicine )
From Austria - A diet consistently high in cholesterol may cause physiological effects similar to those seen in Alzheimer's disease. In research published in Molecular Cellular Neuroscience , rats were fed a cholesterol enriched diet. When compared to controls the high cholesterol group, suffered memory impairment, inflammation, and higher levels of beta-amyloid; signs which are also typically seen in Alzheimer's disease.
From Illinois - A new imaging technique could dramatically speed up cancer biopsies. This new technique uses laser light to distinguish cancer cells from healthy cells. The result is a colour coded image, red for cancer cells, blue for healthy cells; with clearly defined boundaries. The article, appearing in the journal Cancer Research , states that the identification of the cells is done in less than 5 minutes, with a 99% confidence.
From New Hampshire - In an article published in Clinical Cancer Research , researchers were able to create a vaccine from cancer patients' own cells to help eliminate further microscopic tumors. After undergoing surgery to remove tumors that had spread from the colon to liver, the patients were given a vaccine made from there own dendritic cells, primed with proteins from their tumors. In those that developed an immune response, over 60% were tumor free in the 5 year follow up period.




