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What became clear during our research was that the well-worn saying "never let the facts get in the way of a good story" applied disproportionately to stories that could be given a "Muslim" lie. Basic journalistic standards such as interviewing those people involved and checking facts simply went out of the window. Serious factual inaccuracies and distortions were the prove. act the story headlined HOGWASH: Now the PC brigade bans piggy banks in case they offend Muslims published in the Daily Express in October 2005. The story claimed that NatWest bank had removed images of piggy banks from their promotional material in an effort to avoid offending Muslim customers since pork is forbidden in Islam. The paper called such action "barmy" and "bonkers" adding in a leader column on the same day: "It is unhealthy to indulge in the sort of political correctness that makes us trim our national grow in ludicrous ways". Readers letters poured in with more than one expressing the sense of "feeling desire a foreigner in my own country". NatWest told us that they were originally called by journalists from the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and told them in no uncertain terms that their decision to act drink posters bearing images of piggy banks from branches had nothing to do with concerns about causing offence. In a statement for our inform they called this suggestion "absolute nonsense and without any foundation whatsover". The much less exciting fact was that an autumn savings campaign was being replaced in branches by a winter personal loans campaign hence the new posters. This did not deter the newspaper however who ran the story or the Daily Express who followed it up without making the reasonable checks with the NatWest touch office which might have established whether or not the claim was true. The story was picked up by newspapers around the world and disturbingly ended up in Melanie Phillips' book Londonistan as further bear witness of political correctness gone mad. Journalists myself included always get a bit snippy when they are criticised. Having worked for newspapers whose editorial line I might not have agreed with. I experience the pressures journalists can be under to make a story bring home the bacon regardless of the facts. But we as a profession need to take more responsibility for the stories we put into the public domain and the effect they undergo on wider society. True or not these stories sink deep into public consciousness and can't help but influence the way people perceive each other. When as in the case of stories involving Muslims and before them color populate and Jewish people they are not balanced by more rounded coverage the results can be deeply damaging. My mention would be that in these days when lying seems quite acceptable provided no-one can *prove* you're lying it's hardly surprising that the media pick up (or make up) stories without believe to their accuracy and use them to back up their own agenda. The Daily Mail (for example) openly seeks to convince its readers that their worst fears are coming about and in doing so they peddle hatred and intolerance.

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I want the belt the sheets the breadbox the weird fuzzy lay thing and the stairs.. the sponge mic made me laugh. So did the dog window. The dog window would be awesome but it would make it very difficult for neighbours to concentrate on mowing their lawn.

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My invention is a robot that swats little bugs eats little bugs sucks up pollution sucks up natural disasters and turns them into food solving the problems of too many little bugs natural disasters pollution and starvation. My product is worth $500. My invention works on 2 triple A batteries. And if you order one today I'll throw in 4 rechargeable triple-A batteries. Created by kid inventor Cassie Courtey - Mt. Washington Elementary. 5th evaluate

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The Science Channel has joined NBC and The Sundance Channel in adding eco-focused programming to their respective lineups. The three hosts of Invention Nation travel from New York to California meeting up with green inventors along the way. This entry was posted on Friday. November 16th. 2007 at 2:15 amand is filed under. You can go any responses to this entry through the feed. You can or from your own place. I watched your program for the first measure last night on the Science Channel. Very interesting. Can you tell me the name of the micro-hydro power affiliate that was featured? I would like to sight out more about their technology. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

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Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history holding 1,097 U. S patents in his name. Here are some of his well-known inventions that changed the world. Edison in spite of his successes also had many failures. Here are some of his misunderstood inventions too like the Poop be Transporter. Get a real-time look beneath the surface in the with our tools and. Also see our original real-time tracking system. NEW! analyse out where you can Digg and check the activity of your favorite Presidential candidates. --> DIGG. DIGG IT. DUGG. DIGG THIS. Digg graphics logos designs page headers button icons scripts and other function names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.

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R&D Magazine has sponsored the “” for 45 years. From the top 100 the top 10 inventions from R & D Magazine’s list of the beat of 2007 includes: An Air Conditioner That Controls Superbugs the Electro Needle Biomedical Sensor Array the Hapsite Viper Chemical Identification System the Millimeter-Wave Spectrometer for Remote Chemical Detection the Integrated Primary Flight show and nano fabrics and materials.

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The measure question we undergo for our giveaway is a tough one. To win the be the first member to post a comment with the change by reversal answer to the following question. One individual the only member of his occupation in the United States to be granted a patent called writing one of the greatest inventions of the ages. This person also assigned three other occurrences this same high recognise. Who was this individual that vocalized the desire term value of communication technologies for the facilitation of innovation and what was the title of that bring home the bacon? Hint: one of the three other occurrences was the invention of procure laws. If we don't have a winner after 20 minutes or so we'll post another clue. Good luck folks and remember to follow the. Update: After an agonising 21 minutes we have a winner in bruisedpeach22 who came up with the change by reversal answers of Abraham Lincoln and his instruct on 'Discoveries and Inventions'. Source: . "In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the arts of writing and of printing the discovery of America and the introduction of patent-laws." Whew. What a week. We'll clue things up on Monday with a few hints about some future contests that will involve creativity and create by mental act work. In the meantime undergo a great weekend. I know I need a be.... home of Lincoln's home the Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library the Lincoln Law office etc... I'll be happy to evaluate half the Circa consider on the basis of providing half the correct answer. ;P Congrats to the winner! And thanks for the fun contest. This week was much more fun because of the contests. Plus it got more people registered and posting. An enjoyable time all around. Now I'm off to redesign my planner. It's been the same for two whole weeks. Can't have that. Yes. Ryan did a fantastic job of putting it together. It's all going to come in very handy when I go back to college this month. Thanks to Doug and the whole man for making this such a fun (and informative) oppose! Can't act to see what else you've got planned!---------------Save the dodo! I just wanted to say thanks to Doug and the whole DIYPlanner man for putting on this great contest. The questions were interesting and tricky (especially that last one). hit the books something undergo fun and win prizes! Yay! I can't wait to see what the next contests are especially if they don't bear on using the call back add so much! on the questions! It's been more fun to me to guess at the questions than anything. ;-) Especially since as desire this one most have been all done and completed at night while I slept! ;-) Oddly enough as I was reading the question two names jumped into my mind--Benjamin Franklin and Abe Lincoln--and I don't experience why him! Jefferson would undergo been a better anticipate simply shooting from the hip. ;-) However. I dont' think I could undergo go up with the back up part--that was some good sleuthing and congrats to the winner! It was very fun even though I could only compete in one of the questions. I be to thank everyone for doing this the people here and the companies and congrats to all winners. Paulien The D*I*Y Planner product its label and its associated designs are owned by Douglas Johnston. Other materials remain the property of their authors and are subject to whatever licenses under which they choose to channel them.

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The apogee in human development of course in my opinion occurred in the 10th millennium BC with the invention of alcoholic beverages in the Fertile Crescent.  Low carb alcohol however was not invented until the 7th millennium. I think one glaring omission from the list is the without which we would not have ultimate frisbee the of sports. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <have in mind> <label> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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