The satellite link that keeps watch on your children
September 18th, 2009
Mail Online
By Daily Mail Reporter
Its vivid colour is clearly designed to appeal to youngsters. But this watch is really aimed at their parents.
For its key selling point is a satellite positioning system that locates the wearer to within ten feet.
The makers claim the GPS tracking device will offer anxious parents peace of mind and allow children the independence to go out to play on their own.
The num8 watch costs £149.99 and can be securely fastened to a child’s wrist, triggering an alert if forcibly removed
But critics have said the ‘tagging’ is a step too far in the climate of paranoia over child safety.
The num8 watch, pictured above, costs £149.99 and can be securely fastened to a child’s wrist, triggering an alert if forcibly removed.
Parents will be able to see their child’s location on Google maps by texting ‘wru’ to a special number, or clicking ‘where r you’ on the secure website linked to the device. The street address and postcode will be displayed.
Safe zones can also be set up in which children can play. An alert will be sent to the parents if the child strays out of that area.
Steve Salmon, of makers Lok8u, said: ‘Losing your child, if only for a brief moment, leads to a state of panic and makes parents feel powerless. The overriding aim of num8 is to give children their freedom and parents peace of mind.’
But Dr Michele Elliott, director of children’s charity Kidscape, said: ‘Is the world really that unsafe that parents need to track their children electronically? I don’t think so.’
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The Zen TV Experiment
September 18th, 2009
Adbusters Magazine
By Bernard McGrane
1. “How many of you know how to watch television?”
2. Count the Technical Events
3. Anger and Resistance: What’s the Meaning of This?!
4. Labor in the Mode of Relaxation
5. TV And the Social Construction of Reality
6. Hypnosis Unlimited
7. Coercing Us Into Reality
8. TV Without Sound
9. The Nature of the News
10. Discoveries About Self
11. TV and the Illusion of Knowing
“How many of you know how to watch television?”
“How many of you know how to watch television?” I asked my class one day. After a few bewildered and silent moments, slowly, one by one, everyone haltingly raised their hands. We soon acknowledged that we were all “experts,” as Harold Garfinkel would say, in the practice of “watching television.”
The purpose of our un-TV experiment was to provoke us into seeing television as opposed to merely looking, and to stop the world as the first step to seeing. Here we engage in stopping the world by stopping the television.
For the experiment, students were asked to watch TV consciously. Insofar as this is sort of “Zen and the art of TV watching,” I said to them, “I want you to watch TV with acute awareness, mindfulness and precision. This experiment is about observing television scientifically, with Beginner’s Mind, rather than watching television passively with programmed mind. Ordinarily, if you are watching TV you can’t also observe and experience the experience of watching TV. When we watch TV we rarely pay attention to the details of the event. In fact, we rarely pay attention.”
Count the Technical Events
In this particular experimental odyssey, we are going to be exploring how we subject ourselves on a daily basis to the overwhelming sirens’ song of TV entertainment (the great electronic cyclops) and, like Homer’s Odysseus, we will need to strap ourselves to the mast–in this case, the mast of counting technical events. For 10 minutes simply count the technical events that occur while you are watching any show. This is a TET or Technical Events Test as Jerry Mander discusses it in Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. What is a technical event? We’ve all seen TV cameras in banks and jewelry stores. A stationary video camera simply recording what’s in front of it is what I will call “pure TV.” Anything other than pure TV is a technical event: the camera zooms up, that’s a technical event; you are watching someone’s profile talking and suddenly you are switched to another person responding, that’s a technical event; a car is driving down the road and you also hear music playing, that’s a technical event. Simply count the number of times there is a cut, zoom, superimposition, voice-over, appearance of words on the screen, fade in/out, etc.
Now proceed with these experiments:
1. Watch any TV show for 15 minutes without turning on the sound.
2. Watch any news program for 15 minutes without turning on the sound.
3. Watch television for one half hour without turning it on.
The time requirements in these experiments are extremely important. I would urge you, the reader, to undertake the experiment personally rather than merely going on to read the results.
Anger and Resistance: What’s the Meaning of This?!
In examining the results of this experiment, one of the…
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Up to 11,000 U.S. veterans may have been mistakenly infected with HIV
September 18, 2009
Big News Network
11,000 veterans who had colonoscopies at U.S. Veterans Affairs hospitals may have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.
The veterans were advised equipment used during their treatment was not sterilized. Of those so far that responded by having follow-up blood checks, 8 have tested positive for HIV. Twelve of the veterans have tested positive for hepatitis B, and 37 have tested positive for hepatitis C.
This week it was learned a 55-year-old North Miami man, Juan Rivera, a thirteen-year Army veteran with a wife and 5 children, filed notice last month that he will sue the Federal Government claiming he was infected with HIV during a colonoscopy at the Miami Veterans Administration hospital. He had a colonoscopy at the hospital in May last year.
Rivera is suing the government for $20 million.
On March 28, the VA department wrote to more than 3,000 veterans who had colonoscopies at the Miami VA hospital advising them that improperly cleaned equipment might have exposed them to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.
VA officials say endoscopy equipment was rinsed instead of being sterilizing as was required by the manufacturer’s directions.
Similar problems were uncovered at VA hospitals in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Augusta, Ga. The total number of veterans subsequently blew out to more than 11,000.
Following congressional inquiries, Miami VA hospital director Mary Berrocal disciplined up to 10 employees.
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Banana diseases hit African crops
September 18, 2009
BBC News
Food supplies in several African countries are under threat because two diseases are attacking bananas, food scientists have told the BBC.
Crops are being damaged from Angola through to Uganda – including many areas where bananas are a staple food.
Experts are urging farmers to use pesticides or change to a resistant variety of banana where possible.
Scientists have been meeting in Tanzania to decide how to tackle the diseases, which are spread by insects.
‘Big danger’
A statement from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) said “drastic and expensive control measures” were needed.
BANANA DISEASES
These include “completely excavating entire banana fields and treating them with pesticides, or burning the plants”.
Experts say the two diseases – bunchy top viral disease and bacterial wilt – are both spread by insects and very few varieties of banana have resistance to them.
While bunchy top stunts the growth of plants by causing leaves to sprout from the top, bacterial wilt kills off plants and makes their fruit inedible.
Christopher Chemirehreh, of the Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute in Uganda, said people were particularly vulnerable in the areas where the diseases were found.
“It’s a big danger because the affected areas have the banana as their staple crop,” he told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme.
“So if they fail to control the bacterial wilt, their incomes are affected and their food is affected, so it’s a very big problem.”
Monsanto to Charge as Much as 42% More for New Seeds
September 18th, 2009
Bloomberg
By Jack Kaskey
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed maker, plans to charge as much as 42 percent more for new genetically modified seeds next year than older offerings because they increase farmers’ output.
Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans will cost farmers an average of $74 an acre in 2010, and original Roundup Ready soybeans will cost $52 an acre, St. Louis-based Monsanto said today in presentations on its Web site. SmartStax corn seeds, developed with Dow Chemical Co., will cost $130 an acre, 17 percent more than the YieldGard triple-stack seeds they will replace.
“Our pricing has the flexibility built in to ensure the grower captures the greatest return from his seed investment, irrespective of market volatility,” Chief Executive Officer Hugh Grantsaid today in a statement.
Grant is introducing new modified seeds that boost yields as part of a plan to double gross profit from 2007 to 2012. The new soybeans, which resist Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, produce 7.4 percent more soybeans per acre than the older version. SmartStax kills insects in multiple ways, reducing the amount of conventional corn that must be planted to deter insecticide resistance.
“SmartStax pricing is higher than we initially expected,” Vincent Andrews, a New York-based analyst at Morgan Stanley, said today in a report.
Monsanto rose $1.57, or 1.9 percent, to $84.03 at 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The shares have gained 19 percent this year.
Acreage Forecasts
SmartStax corn seed will be planted on as many as 4 million acres in 2010, its first year on the market, with a potential for as many as 65 million acres in the U.S. eventually, the company said. The new seed boosts yields 5 percent to 10 percent compared with other products, partly by reducing the amount of land that must be planted with conventional corn to 5 percent from 20 percent, Monsanto said.
Pricing for SmartStax is at the high end of expectations, Laurence Alexander, a New York-based analyst at Jefferies & Co., said by telephone.
Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybean seeds were planted on 1.5 million acres this year and will be planted on as many as 8 million acres next year in the U.S. with a potential to one day reach 55 million acres, Monsanto said.
The company is pricing its seeds to share the benefit of increased yields with farmers, saidMark Gulley, a New York- based analyst at Soleil Securities. Prices include seed treatments designed to protect seedlings from pests and disease, Monsanto said.
“They are in essence splitting the value of the extra yield 50-50,” Gulley said by telephone.
Monsanto repeated its forecast for earnings in the fiscal year that ends this month at the low end of a range of $4.40 to $4.50 a share. The average estimate of 16 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg was for profit of $4.41 a share.
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The Kevin Trudeau Show Arrives in Minnesota!
September 18, 2009 by Andrew
Filed under Radio Stations
September 18, 2009 CHICAGO, IL – The Kevin Trudeau show is proud to announce that starting September 26th, 2009, it will be airing on KLFD-AM 1410 in Litchfield, Minnesota!
The show will be on KLFD every Saturday from 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Listeners have compared Kevin Trudeau’s radio show to the best parts of Michael Savage, Howard Stern, Art Bell, John Tesh and Rush.
Mr. Trudeau is one of the most read authors of all time. His books have all been best sellers and have sold over 30 million copies globally. Mr. Trudeau’s most controversial book, Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About was number 1 on the New York Times best sellers list for 26 weeks in a row becoming the best selling health book of all time.
The Kevin Trudeau Radio Show originates from studios at Trudeau’s World Headquarters in Chicago. For information regarding affiliate relations visit www.KevinOnAir.com
I can’t wait until you go on 5x a week…
September 18, 2009 by Brandy
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Hi Kevin,
Thank you SO much for your books and your incredible radio show. I’ve listened to every single show on iTunes. I can’t wait until you go on 5x a week! All of your advice that I have taken has been awesome! You have never steered me wrong. I have done and continue to do many of your suggestions in chapter 6 in Natural Cures. You have practically saved my health. I’ve been into natural health for years; I only wish we could get the word out to the other brainwashed people that really need the truth! Thanks! Keep up the great work!
Peter
Los Angeles, California
My life is changing because of you…
September 18, 2009 by Brandy
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Hi Kevin,
I listen to your radio shows; they are always very interesting and informative. I have your CDs “Your Wish is Your Command” and listen to them over and over. I am still reading your books ”Debt Cures” and “Free Money”, both contains outstanding information and insight.
I have been retired for quite awhile, my health is challenging me at this time, but thanks to you, Mark Hamilton and other members I have met online I can see a new and wonderful life unfolding for me.
Sincerely,
Ora Heathington
Endicott, New York
I work at a hospital in Wisconsin…
September 18, 2009 by Brandy
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Love your books! I just have to tell you how “difficult” you have made my life. I work at a hospital in Wisconsin, taking calls from patients to their primary physicians. I have always seen that this was “a business” but now that I have had my eyes opened up by Kevin’s knowledge; it is SO difficult to hear these people requesting all these medications day after day! Sickening! I really have to find a healthy new outlook soon, because I just want to tell these patients how much better their lives could be without the poisons! Thanks for all you do! I am updating my resume as I type to move on to a healthy alternative job!
Kim
Kenosha, Wisconsin
I lost 40 lbs because of you…
September 18, 2009 by Brandy
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Hi KT,
I’m 26 years old and just started reading your books 2-3 months ago. I haven’t been able to put them down! I also lost 40+ lbs doing the things in your book without even using the HCG protocol! I even have a couple copies of the Natural Cures book to lend out to friends to try to help spread the word. I have to say though the government has done a great job to this point of suppressing this info for a long time. While reading your books so many things started making sense to me. I’m a really hard working residential contractor. I will also be signing up for GIN ASAP, but am waiting for a guy I met on community cures to respond with his reference # so I can use that to help him with another person towards his founder status. I had the opportunity to meet Fred Van Liew a few weeks ago while he was promoting Trinisol. I want to attend these seminars extremely bad, so I’m going to make sure I get founder status. It would be huge to get a chance to meet you, Dr. Coldwell, and all of you corruption exposers! I am also going to start a website to try to help get information out. I have recently downloaded all of your podcasts to my iPod and listen to them constantly while I’m roofing houses. I am finally up to date on them and am ready to get involved. I’m really excited. Keep up what your doing, more people than you know appreciate it, even if they don’t right now, when they realize who the bad guys are, they will eventually I’m sure. Good luck and keep having fun while your doing it
Edward Hirsch
Cambridge, Minnesota
