New Safeguards for Online Payments National Living Wage has Not Affected Employment Women now able to Enter Haji Ali Shrine 12-Year-Old with Au-Kline Syndrome takes 1st Steps Fossilised Beetle Wing Cases found in Australia World’s Oldest Woman turns 117 Highest Basketball Shot World Record Mahler Manuscript Breaks Record at Sotheby’s Pope Francis to visit […]
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I know this blog is usually about positive news that enriches the spirit etc. but hearing about a Biker caught hiding a loaded gun in his butt is too gosh darn funny. Seeing an image of the gun in question I’m not sure it had a safety catch. >.< So this weekend remember to laugh and […]
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Now, I’ll admit that, while I may be a White Sox fan, I do love an underdog story. So hearing that the Cubbies are headed to their first World Series in over 70-Years has me smiling. 26 Hostages Freed in Somalia Kickstarter Helps save Wizard of Oz Slippers £18m for Neonatal Intensive Care Centre Marlowe […]
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Chinese Astronauts reach Space Station Hope for Renewed Peace Talks in Colombia Tasmanian Devil Milk fights Superbugs Micro Bit Mini-Computer Heading Overseas M&S helping to Cut Living Costs for Disabled Chuck Berry Announces New Album Northern Ireland Jobless Rate Lowest since 2008 Scottish Unemployment sees Further Fall Welsh Unemployment Continues to Fall Thousands of […]
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FARC release Child Soldiers Mexicans March in Support of Same-Sex Marriage Robot Operates inside eye for First Time US Halts Oil Pipeline opposed by Native Americans Nanofish could be the future of Drug Delivery & Surgery Jersey Coin Horde Largest yet found in Britain Hajj reaches its Climax Arab Brewers reviving old traditions Flute […]
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Well it’s good to be back. A new computer and a clearer direction is helping. Though I’m still recovering after being attacked in the street last week. However, if Reasons to be Cheerful has taught me anything it’s to look for the positives. So happy to be back with the positive news. I hope you […]
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Happy Monday!! Lots of GREAT stories today but my favourite has to be the one I used to cheer up a friend with Yesterday. Conservative Rabbis speaking up in support of Transgender Rights. All too often the stories, we see, about Faith and Religion are images of intolerance, violence and ignorance rather than of acceptance, support, […]
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Prize for Friday’s amazing news goes to the University of Essex for wiping out its Gender Pay Gap in one swipe pay raise. In other equalities news the ban on blood donations by gay men is to be lifted in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland Gay Blood Donation Ban to be Lifted University Wipes out Gender Pay […]
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Well, it’s a sunny day and GCHQ has joined twitter. Now, in terms of transparency and humanising the intelligence community this is, kind of, good news. However, it’s the fact that in their 1st 4 tweets that they decided to show support for Stonewall UK and the International Day Against Homophobia that has me grinning. In more […]
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Having worked in video games I am happy to see two absolute classics taken into the Video Games Hall of Fame. However, if any stories jump out it has to be the Invictus Games in Orlando. While the coming Summer Olympics and Paralympics will be an amazing show the Invictus Games have been a lifeline […]
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Travels of a Silicon Nomad 