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• Medical Abbreviations Explained by Mobile App

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Rhona Finkel First Posted at HealthWorks Collective on 5/20/2013 Does this happen to you? Do you ever find something–something unusual, that perhaps no one else wants–and think to yourself, “Where have you been my whole life?” Well, anyone who has followed my love affair with mobile health apps will ...
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• BBC: Unexplained ‘standstill’ in ‘global warming’ — since 1998!

  
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  Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. Since 1998, there has been an unexplained “standstill” in the heating of the Earth’s atmosphere. Writing in Nature Geoscience , the researchers say this will reduce predicted warming in the ...
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• Reports Say Yahoo To Buy Tumblr Website For $1.1 Billion – Blogging Will Not Be That Popular?

  
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  Looks like there is another Internet blockbuster of a deal about to be made as Yahoo is reportedly buying the Blogging giant Tumblr for over a Billion Dollars US. Funny how society still way behind on the actual value of on line businesses.  The Tony Batman’s  A Entertainment News, or the Planet Platypus Network ...
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• What makes a story newsworthy for the BBC?

  
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  A Western journalist working in Israel once remarked to this writer that the reason so many of the foreign media’s reports from the country seem so similar is that a not insignificant number of them are written in the bar of the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem where journalists share stories and experiences. ...
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• BBC reports UN kidnapping, ignores mortar fire into Israel

  
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  Position 86 On May 7 th 2013 an article entitled “ Syria crisis: UN peacekeepers seized on Golan Heights ” appeared in the Middle East section of the BBC News website, relating to the latest case of kidnapping of members of the UNDOF force from the area of Position 86 – located in the buffer zone ...
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• Nikita: Invisible Hand

  
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  Nikita airs Fridays on The CW.  Last night was a new episode.  Next Friday is the season finale. Season finale or series finale?  Season finale:  Follow Craig Silverstein ‏ @ sesfonstein # Nikita will return but not for a full season. We can promise an incredible finish though! ...
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• Nikky nakky noos

  
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  S o Stephen Gough is back in the papers.. For those of who may not have heard of him, he is the naked rambler.  Well according to the BBC News Website they state that he was fined £1800 for walking around naked in the Hampshire area.. which has been waived in lieu of his time in custody. The District Judge ...
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• Bob Somerby floats in his own toilet

  
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  Remember back when Bob Somerby, The Daily Howler , spent all that time trashing Valerie Plames husband Joe Wilson?  And remember how he forgot while writing of all this to ever disclose that he was friends with journalists Matt Cooper (who along with Judith Miller was being ordered by the court to reveal the White ...
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• BBC skirts issue of incitement

  
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  The headline of an article appearing on May 8th in the Middle East section of the BBC News website informs readers: “ Senior Jerusalem Islamic cleric questioned over clashes “.  The report opens: “Israeli police briefly detained Jerusalem’s most senior Islamic cleric, following clashes between ...
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• Ian & Ian on BBC

  
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  Ian Gillan and Ian Paice are scheduled to be the studio interview guests on Later… With Jools Holland next week. The show goes out live on Tuesday, May 14th on BBC2, is repeated in a slightly longer version the Friday …
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• Lauren Wolfe is the new Judy Miller

  
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  Hump day, hump day.  And learn to march because Barack wants us all marching off to war on Syria.   Thomas Gaist reports at WSWS : US officials continued to press for war against Syria yesterday, dismissing United Nations investigator Carla del Ponte’s statement that Western-backed opposition forces, not the ...
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• An order to stand down

  
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  Today, Gregory Hicks provided testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.   As C.I. notes in the snapshot today, "US House Rep Darrell Issa is the Chair, the witnesses were the State Depts Mark Thompson (Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism), Gregory Hicks (Foreign Service ...
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• THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

  
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  If like me, youre forever looking for the truth in our Times, News Unspun is tops in unravelling the media bias - particularly the right wing bias of the BBC, which is meant to be a public broadcasting company (that is, owned by all of us, for all of us). Visit News Unspun
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• BBC promotes false Hawking boycott claims – updated

  
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  The BBC News website’s Middle East page is running an article claiming that Professor Stephen Hawking has been persuaded by an anti-Israel organisation to boycott a conference in Israel.  The article opens: “UK cosmologist Prof Stephen Hawking has withdrawn from a high-profile Israeli conference, ...
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• News moves to WordPress

  
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  It’s a little over five years since our last major redevelopment of the Edge Hill news website when it moved from a classic ASP application into Symfony with lots of new functionality. In that time it’s been well used (and abused) with 1337  new articles plus an archive of 537 articles dating back to July ...
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• BBC4 chief Richard Klein joins ITV

  
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  Channels controller to be director of factual at rival, while Helen Warner has been named director of daytime BBC4 controller Richard Klein is jumping ship to ITV to be the rival broadcasters director of factual, after nearly four and a half years running the channel. ITV also announced on Tuesday that Helen Warner ...
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• BBC Q&A on alleged Israeli air strikes is political polemic

  
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  Among the BBC’s ample coverage of the alleged Israeli air-strikes on targets in Syria related to the transfer of advanced weapons to the terrorist organisation Hizballah , we find a ‘Question & Answer’ article   dated May 5th 2013 .  The article opens: “Israel has carried out two ...
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• BBC tries to create reality with terminology

  
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  Does the BBC think it knows something which the rest of the world does not? “Using the word Palestine is controversial for some. Israeli policy is that the borders of a Palestinian state are yet to be agreed .” [emphasis added] That sentence appeared in an article published in the Middle East section of the ...
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• BBC promotes Assad propaganda in Syria reports

  
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  The BBC’s reporting on the weekend’s unfolding events in Syria is in top gear. On May 4th an article entitled “ Israeli warplanes launch air strike inside Syria ” – including a filmed report by Wyre Davies which was also broadcast on BBC television news – appeared on the Middle East page of the BBC News ...
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• BBC whitewashes anti-Jewish extremism in Tunisia

  
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  h/t LS On May 1 st a report appeared in the ‘Features & Analysis’ section of the Middle East page of the BBC News website under the heading “At Ease” and with the by-line “Tunisia’s tiny Jewish community unruffled by troubled past”. The link leads to a piece entitled “ Tunisia’s last ...
  3 weeks ago

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