People dangerously underestimate the health risks linked to smoking cannabis due to lack of awareness, experts have warned. The British Lung Foundation (BLF) carried out a survey of 1,000 adults and found a third wrongly believed cannabis did not harm health. And 88% incorrectly thought tobacco cigarettes were more harmful than cannabis ones – when the risk of lung cancer is actually 20 tim…
Jun 6 2012 | Posted in
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The Dog With The Longest Ears On The Planet. Guinness World Records 2012. Woman with the longest tongue. The crocodile weighs one ton and is believed responsible for eating at least one fisherman, but this monster has finally been caught by 100 men in Philippines. Measuring 21 ft (about 6.5 m), the monster is the largest crocodile captured alive in recent years. World's largest crocodile…
Sep 6 2011 | Posted in
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e tested them again 25 years later after some participants became chronic users. “Participants were frank about their substance abuse habits because they trust our confidentiality guarantee, and 96% of the original participants stuck with the study from 1972 to today. “It is such a special study that I’m fairly confident that cannabis is safe for over-18 brains, but risky for und…
Aug 28 2012 | Posted in
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Read More » respondents aged 17-39 years admitted to having consumed cannabis within 12 hours of driving a vehicle. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction found in 2008 that between 0.3% and 7.4% of drivers tested positive for cannabis from roadside surveys in the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, the United States, and Australia. The researchers conclude that despite the…
another clothes factory in the same industrial zone, leaving at least 25 people dead. There are around 4,500 factories in Bangladesh, employing more than two million people. Clothes account for up to 80% of Bangladesh’s $24 billion annual exports….
estigating, “as we would any unattended death”. The Tribe Mediterranean plant recently completed an $8 million expansion over the summer. At the time of the expansion it predicted they would add about 60 new jobs to their company. That new number would bring their workforce to 125….
Dec 17 2011 | Posted in
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d help companies of any size in any market segment generate more campaigns, more leads and, ultimately, more customers.” “I like this combination a lot,” said Paul Greenberg, president of The 56 Group, LLC, a customer strategy consulting firm. “A 21st-century multichannel marketing strategy has to incorporate social channels as well as traditional or it’s going to fail. To succeed at that…
…ed, so many basic errors were made, both in gathering and testing the samples. At the first trial, for example, the prosecution claimed traces of Meredith Kercher’s DNA were detected on the blade of a 30cm knife recovered from Rafaelle Sollecito’s flat, and thatAmanda Knox’s DNA was on the handle. She is said to have “trembled and shook” when police pulled it from the kitchen drawer. The original…
r had been released from prison three years early after being convicted of firearms and drug offences. In 2008, Nordine Amrani had been found guilty of keeping 10 complete firearms, and an astonishing 9,500 gun parts in his flat, along with 2,800 cannabis plants nearby. On Tuesday morning, Nardine Amrani is thought to have tried to rape the woman cleaner in his flat, where police had found an arse…
to 26 years in prison. Raffaele Sollecito is convicted of same charges and sentenced to 25 years. December 22, 2009: Appeals court upholds Rudy Guede conviction and cuts sentence to 16 years. November 8, 2010: Judge orders Amanda Knox to stand trial on slander charges for claiming police beating. November 24, 2010: Appeals trial for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito opens in Perugia. December 16,…
Bobby Brown has been released from jail after spending only 9 hours behind bars. Bobby Brown barely had time to settle into his cell following his incarceration on Wednesday morning for his third DUI conviction. The singer checked into L.A. County Jail at 9:58 a.m. on Wednesday, before being released at 6:58 p.m. because the jail was “overcrowded”, TMZ reports. Bobby Brown was sentenced to 55 day…
Mar 21 2013 | Posted in
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prison and the pain of being away from his family. The sentence, which came hours after he defiantly claimed his innocence and blamed his victims for orchestrating a conspiracy against him, means the 68-year-old cannot be released on parole before the minimum term is up. He plans to appeal. Three of his victims told the court today of the emotional impact the abuse had on them and are said to hav…
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Bloggers at German sites such as iPhone fan site iFun caught a snapshot of Vodafone Germany’s site offering a menu of new “iPhone 4S” models today – but there was no sign of iPhone 5. Likewise, Apple Insider and 9 to 5 Mac reported several references to iPhone 4S – and images show the new phone looks exactly like the old iPhone 4. The 9 to 5 Mac went blog further with an –…
Sarkozy was now ahead of main challenger Francois Hollande in first-round voting intentions – by 30% to 26% – and had narrowed Hollande’s lead in the largely expected run-off vote on 6 May. Mohamed Merah, 23, was buried at the Cornebarrieu cemetery in Toulouse on Thursday. His body was accompanied by around 15 men, although it was not clear who they were. Toulouse’s mayor h…
…Vermont road and ended up heading toward the Canadian border on November 19, authorities said. There, a U.S. Border Patrol agent at the Highgate Springs crossing arrested the uncle, Mark Aaron Staake, 41, because he was found to have an outstanding warrant for a felony parole violation out of New Mexico, authorities said. The nephew, Tanner Ruane, 23, was released with their 1983 BMW, but he then…
Dec 15 2012 | Posted in
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…in prison, outside Lille. Police say the criminal is armed and still in possession of explosives. Redoine Faid is a well-known criminal in France, where he was imprisoned for a series of robberies. In 2009 he wrote a book about his experiences of growing up in Paris’s crime-ridden suburbs and graduating into a life of crime. Redoine Faid set off a series of explosions and took four guards h…
Apr 13 2013 | Posted in
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eir own power sources because of increasingly erratic national grid electricity supplies. The industry is critical to Pakistan’s frail economy – according to central bank data, it provided 7.4% of Pakistan’s GDP in 2011 and employed 38% of the manufacturing sector workforce, accounting for 55.6% of total exports. …
d in one of the largest military bases for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, but the new Parwan facility was constructed a few miles away in 2010. More than 3,000 inmates are held there, including about 50 foreigners not covered by the handover agreement signed in March. The US military still wants to run a section of the jail and is not handing over some detainees, saying it has the right to hold i…
6:02, I was taken into a waiting room where I stayed for around four hours with no knowledge of what was going on. Every so often, someone would come in and say the execution had been delayed. Around 9:00pm, I went to the bathroom and heard some people talking. Around 10:20pm, an official came and brought me out into a hallway where I was told to stop. Three men, including the warden, were walkin…
f course. We are required to provide a nutritional meal, which we do, but we also have to be mindful of taxpayers who are footing the bill,” Gretl Plessinger said. Despite the complaints, nearly 90% of prisoners choose to eat the dishes mixed with soy instead of the beans or peanut butter alternatives they have for each meal, Gretl Plessinger said. Eric Harris claims he has a history lymphom…
Nov 8 2011 | Posted in
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At least 38 inmates have died in Apodaca prison riot in northern Mexico. Security officials said the inmates had either forced or bribed a number of guards to open the doors between two separate wings of the jail. A fight broke out between the prisoners, in which the killings occurred. Deadly prison fights between rival gangs are not uncommon in Mexico: last month 31 inmates were killed in simila…
…ro tolerance to any violations of human rights, because we are building a civilized and humane country, rather than discipline based on violence.” The film showing abuse in the Gldani prison No. 8 was broadcast on TV on Tuesday. It triggered overnight protests in Tbilisi and also in the southern city of Batumi, Georgian media say. In the capital, anti-government demonstrations were held in v…
Cameron Douglas, the drug-addict son of Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas, has suffered severe injuries, including a broken leg and fingers, after being attacked in prison. Cameron Douglas, 34, who is doing time for years of drug use and dealing, was apparently attacked after an unnamed New York crime boss put a $100 bounty on his head for being a “rat”. During a 2010 bail hearing, Cameron Doug…
Dec 17 2012 | Posted in
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who let the animals out of the cages and what happened to Mr Thompson. We are waiting on the results of the preliminary autopsy to establish cause of death.” It was also reported that Terry Thompson, 62, who lived at the Muskingum County Animal Farm, had chimps in cages in his home but these were still locked up. Jack Hanna, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium director emeritus told FOX News Channel: “The…
…on will meet Home Secretary, Theresa May and Acting Scotland Yard Commissioner, Tim Godwin before chairing a meeting of the Cobra emergency planning committee (the Government’s emergency committee) at 9 a.m., local time. Asked why the PM had now decided to return from his vacation, after previously saying he would not, a Downing Street source said: “The situation has become more serious.…
