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"Widening income gap hurts us all"
By Rob Winters - Published on Saturday, 23 July 2011 11:49
Toronto Star - "I may live to see an uprising over the widening gap between rich and poor in North America. After all, that’s the cause of the regime change this year in North Africa and the Middle East.Westerners have no less acute a sense of fairness than Tunisians and Egyptians. A few of us don’t get the $9.7 million (Canadian) severance payoff for top managers at Rupert Murdoch’s late, scandal-ridden News of the World. And in particular the $3.9 million golden parachute for Rebekah Brooks, who oversaw that paper’s regime of spying and police bribery, and was arrested this week over those alleged improprieties.
Meanwhile, the 200 or so front line NOTW employees laid off with the paper’s closure will be fortunate to collect on their pensions. Their fate is akin to the 1,200 employees of call-centre operator IQT Solutions in Oshawa and Quebec abruptly laid off this week. Declaring their firm bankrupt, the IQT owners hightailed it to parts unknown without giving the affected workers proper notice, their last paycheques, or accumulated vacation and severance pay."
Read more: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1029399--olive-widening-income-gap-hurts-us-all
"Sugar Aids In Heart Attack Recovery"
By Rob Winters - Published on Saturday, 23 July 2011 11:46
"A new study indicates that ribose- a “simple form of sugar”- may hasten heart attack recovery or rebound from surgery.The initial data was presented at the American Heart Association’s 2011 Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was culled from studies on animals measuring the effects of sugar on heart attack recovery and post-surgical healing. Although humans were not mentioned, two instances were cited where recovery from heart attacks or heart surgery was measured as faster due to ribose administration:
According to the study, ribose, given at the time of heart surgery, shaved eight days off of recovery for dogs. And when rats received ribose for two weeks after a heart attack, it prevented further damage to the heart and helped preserve function."
Read more: http://www.inquisitr.com/127913/sugar-and-heart-attack-recovery-surprising-new-data/
"Biggest dog in the world"
By Rob Winters - Published on Saturday, 23 July 2011 11:38
Mail Online - "The first time we saw George, our beloved Great Dane, he was no more than a tiny, cowering ball of fuzzy fur.
As my wife Christie opened the door of the crate he’d travelled in, he teetered to a standing position and looked out at us, moving his head slowly from side to side, taking in the wonder of it all.
Finally, as if weighing us up and deciding we were acceptable, he tentatively pushed his little nose forward and gave Christie her first lick.
Though it didn’t really register, George’s paws were comically large even then. But all we saw was this cute puppy.
We certainly never dreamed he would one day become the biggest dog in the world, standing nearly 4ft high at the shoulder, 7ft long and weighing nearly 18 stone."
"CHINA MAKES APPLE STORE KNOCK-OFFS"
By Rob Winters - Published on Friday, 22 July 2011 20:51
"BEIJING – China is famous for knock-off watches, clothes and bags. Now they are making fake Apple Stores!It looks almost exactly like a sleek Apple store. Sales assistants in blue T-shirts with the company’s logo chat with customers. Signs advertising the iPad 2 hang on the white walls. Outside, the famous logo sits next to the words “Apple Store” — one of the few clues that the whole thing is a fake.
China, long known for producing counterfeit consumer gadgets, software and brand name clothing, has reached a new piracy milestone — fake Apple stores.
An American who lives in Kunming in southern Yunnan province said Thursday that she and her husband stumbled on three shops masquerading as bona fide Apple stores in the city a few days ago. She took photos and posted them on her BirdAbroad blog."
Read more: http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/35924/china-makes-apple-store-knock-offs/
"As it happened: Norway attacks"
By Rob Winters - Published on Friday, 22 July 2011 20:14
WWW.BBC.CO.UK - "1530: Welcome to our live coverage of events in the Norwegian capital Oslo, where an explosion struck this afternoon.
The blast is thought to have caused damage to the offices of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and a number of other official buildings.
A journalist from public radio NRK says: "I see that some windows of the VG building and the government headquarters have been broken. Some people covered with blood are lying in the street."
1531: Eyewitness Ole Tommy Pedersen says he saw the blast shatter almost all of the windows of the high-rise building.
"I saw three or four injured people being carried out of the building a few minutes later," he tells the Associated Press.
A cloud of smoke was sent billowing from the bottom floors, he adds.
1533: Police are not commenting on the cause of the explosion in the centre of the Norwegian capital."
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