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15/04/14
« on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 03:33:33 »
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Zakynthos hunters hurl eggs, yogurt at inspectors

Hunting is prohibited in April, but Zakynthos hunters traditionally hunt during this month.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_14/04/2015_549064


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« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 11:02:07 »
My son's microwave often looks like it's hosting alien lifeforms.

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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 12:50:44 »
Cyprus shaken by a 5.5 'quake at 11:25 local time this morning, depth 50km four km SW of Paphos

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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 13:08:36 »
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People who enter Greece are refugees, Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Tasia Christodoulopoulou told private TV station SKAI on Tuesday, while speaking on the same issue at Mega channel, she said refugees are not homeless, but they are seen sitting in squares because they're "sunbathing" and this is something they can only do in the morning.
http://www.newsbomb.gr/en/story/577154/christodoulopoulou-all-those-who-enter-greece-are-refugees

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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 13:29:47 »
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Chinese ‘Troublemaking’ Tourists to Be Blacklisted

Chinese tourists that behave rudely when travelling abroad will be blacklisted by the Chinese authorities, according to state media reports.

The new measure follows several embarrassing incidents involving Chinese tourists due to uncivilized behavior on their part.
http://news.gtp.gr/2015/04/14/chinese-troublemaking-tourists-blacklisted/

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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 13:46:44 »
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Coronation Street blaze sees fire engines rush to set after 999 calls
Worried locals phone emergency services as they think ITV soap's set is going up in flames when they hear explosion and see fireball erupt from Manchester site
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11537306/Coronation-Street-blaze-sees-fire-engines-rush-to-set-after-999-calls.html

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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 14:25:12 »
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Forget drones, think moles: the subterranean delivery network

While companies such as Amazon are hoping to deliver parcels by air using drones, one British company is exploring the equally high-tech concept of using a vast underground network of pipes in a bid to bypass the UK’s ever more congested roads.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/forget-drones-think-moles-the-subterranean-delivery-network-10176884.html

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Re: 15/05/14
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 15:40:07 »
If you're using Google Chrome browser you might find certain plug-ins no longer work. Brief report on InfoQ, longer explanation on ghacks.

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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 17:59:06 »
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In the deepest salvage operation in history, a British-led team has recovered a $50m (£34m; €47m) trove of coins that has lain on the seabed since the steamship carrying them from Bombay to England was sunk in 1942.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32316599

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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 17:59:45 »
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Greece is 'close to the abyss' as black hole in public finances widens
Government's budget surplus shrinks by more than two thirds as finance ministers warn country is heading towards a euro exit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11537495/Black-hole-in-Greek-finances-grows-as-Athens-is-pushed-to-the-brink-of-euro-exit.html

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« Reply #11 on: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 @ 18:09:53 »
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Revealed: former Bradford chairman linked to at least eight fires before Valley Parade disaster

The book, serialised by the Guardian today and tomorrow, reveals there had been at least eight other fires at business premises either owned by, or connected to, Stafford Heginbotham, Bradford’s then-chairman, in the previous 18 years, resulting in huge insurance claims.

“Could any man really be as unlucky as Heginbotham had been?”

The pattern began with a fire at a three-storey Bradford factory in May 1967 and continued on Good Friday 1968 with another fire at the premises of Genefoam, of which Heginbotham was the managing director. A firm Heginbotham had founded suffered a serious fire in 1970 before the Castle Mills building, owned by Heginbotham, had a fire in 1971. Further blazes followed at the Douglas Mills building, also owned by Heginbotham, in August and November 1977. In December that year there was a fire at the premises of Coronet Marketing, a subsidiary of Heginbotham’s Tebro Toys. A further fire at the Douglas Mills building occurred in June 1981.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/bradford-fire-stafford-heginbotham-martin-fletcher


The Story of the Bradford Fire: ‘could any man really be as unlucky as Stafford Heginbotham?’
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