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Offline Maik

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14/04/19
« on: Sunday, 14 April, 2019 @ 02:43:21 »
Some of the snippets from yesterday's lost News Briefs:

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Tommy Smith: Liverpool great dies, aged 74
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47913937


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Parents ‘devastated’ after one-year-old girl falls to death from window of top-floor flat
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/baby-girl-fall-flat-lexi-bergene-clydebank-scotland-police-a8868281.html


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Boy, 10, dies after dog attack at Tencreek Holiday Park in Cornwall
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-04-13/boy-10-dies-after-dog-attack-at-tencreek-holiday-park-in-cornwall/


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The big cat con: Inside Africa's shocking battery farms for lions

The growing appetite for 'conservation holidays' has shone a light on the dark – and poorly regulated – industry of lion farming, where felines are destined not to be 'released into the wild' - but to be shot by trophy hunters and their bones exported to Asia for use in traditional medicine.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/13/big-cat-con-inside-africas-shocking-battery-farms-lions/


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Plans to host 2030 World Cup and 2028 Euro in Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania

Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania announced a joint effort to host the 2030 World Cup and 2028 Euro games.
https://neoskosmos.com/en/134723/plans-to-host-2030-world-cup-and-2028-euro-in-greece-serbia-bulgaria-and-romania/
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Re: 14/04/19
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, 14 April, 2019 @ 02:49:36 »
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Ivor Broadis: England footballer dies aged 96
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-47919657

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Re: 14/04/19
« Reply #2 on: Sunday, 14 April, 2019 @ 03:08:34 »
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Are satnavs causing permanent damage to your memory? Scientists are concerned over-reliance on gadgets could lead to dementia as they leave driver's brains unstimulated for long periods of time

Most of us will have at least one satnav horror story, after placing all trust in the technology only for it to lead us down a road to nowhere.

Many such tales are so unbelievable they are comical. There was the Syrian truck driver who took his 32-ton lorry to Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire rather than the tiny peninsula 1,600 miles away at the southern tip of Spain, and the woman who blindly followed instructions from her satnav, even when it told her to drive her £96,000 Mercedes into the River Sence – oh, the irony! – in Leicestershire.

In 2017 it was revealed a flyover in Chelmsford, Essex, had been the site of 30 head-on collisions in five years because TomTom and Google Maps satnav systems were sending drivers the wrong way down the one-way road.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6918967/Are-satnavs-causing-permanent-damage-memory-Worrying-evidence-emerges.html

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Re: 14/04/19
« Reply #3 on: Sunday, 14 April, 2019 @ 10:46:02 »
If I'd known about this earlier I would've posted it before the event as it may have some appeal for Brits on Kef - not that I'm suggesting we're a bunch of old f... friends, or anything:

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Vintage Toys 2019 held in Technopolis Municipality of Athens

Visitors play with old toys at the Vintage Toys 2019 in Athens, Greece, on April 13, 2019. As one of the largest exhibitions for old toys in Greece, the Vintage Toys 2019 is held in Technopolis Municipality of Athens for the 6th year in a row from April 12 to 14.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1145807.shtml



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Re: 14/04/19
« Reply #4 on: Sunday, 14 April, 2019 @ 11:10:01 »
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Vitamin D deficiency linked to increased susceptibility to MS

Vitamin D can “dramatically” affect the immune system and could make people less susceptible to diseases such as multiple sclerosis, scientists have discovered.

The body produces vitamin D in response to sunlight.
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-04-14/vitamin-d-deficiency-linked-to-increased-susceptibility-to-ms/

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Re: 14/04/19
« Reply #5 on: Sunday, 14 April, 2019 @ 14:07:21 »
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Are satnavs causing permanent damage to your memory? Scientists are concerned over-reliance on gadgets could lead to dementia as they leave driver's brains unstimulated for long periods of time

Most of us will have at least one satnav horror story, after placing all trust in the technology only for it to lead us down a road to nowhere.

Many such tales are so unbelievable they are comical. There was the Syrian truck driver who took his 32-ton lorry to Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire rather than the tiny peninsula 1,600 miles away at the southern tip of Spain, and the woman who blindly followed instructions from her satnav, even when it told her to drive her £96,000 Mercedes into the River Sence – oh, the irony! – in Leicestershire.
In 2017 it was revealed a flyover in Chelmsford, Essex, had been the site of 30 head-on collisions in five years because TomTom and Google Maps satnav systems were sending drivers the wrong way down the one-way road.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6918967/Are-satnavs-causing-permanent-damage-memory-Worrying-evidence-emerges.html
Think you already have to suffer with dementia to use one.We had only had our car for 10mins when I exploded and turned the woman onto mute .She hasn't appeared again since and that was nearly two years ago!!Just use a good old map if we are going to somewhere strange.Must get out more!!! :wacko:
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