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Jean Charles De Menezes: I saw a backpack. I saw a bomb belt. I saw a big coat. I saw him run and jump barriers.

I am thankful for....

Cameron's massive cow shed rally... Perspective is everything in photography...

High spring tide at Hayle, flooding on the causeway by Quay House

So how long has Canada had reading of rights?

Looking up history of Kojak on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojak#Cultural_impact came across ...

In Canada, some Canadians were concerned that the show left an impression in Canadian youth that they had rights, such as to be informed of an offense, and that it depicted American police reading people their rights in accordance with the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona]Miranda ruling[/url]. In his 1980 book [i]Deference to Authority: The Case of Canada[/i], American sociologist Edgar Fredenberg who came to Canada in the early 1970s to avoid the draft was concerned that Canadians were more upset over depictions of Americans practising their civil rights on a TV show dealing with civil rights issues than that they did not have those rights.

Gruesome and marvelous animated GIFs from GE's new body scanner

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See gruesome and marvelous animated GIFs from GE's new body scanner http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/11/7527809/ge-ct-scanner


Thomas Round on Twitter: "GP visit £31, A&E £114, ambulance £235. Save the #NHS by investing in #primarycare #putpatientsfirst

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GP visit £31, A&E £114, ambulance £235. Save the #NHS by investing in #primarycare #putpatientsfirst #yourgpcares


Quote - A Perfect Marriage...

A Perfect Marriage...

... is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on Each Other

What an absolutely wonderful skewering of Chris Grayling's 'heroism' bill by Lord Pannick...

Seen on Twitter - What an absolutely wonderful skewering of Chris Grayling's 'heroism' bill by Lord Pannick....