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Jun 18, 2010 - 10:48 PM - by gone
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A shipment of dozens of human heads was intercepted last week at an Arkansas airport after a Southwest Airlines worker flagged three "rubber tote containers" holding the human remains. According to the below Little Rock Police Department report, the containers were brought last Wednesday night to a Southwest cargo office by Alan Woods, a 25-year-old deliveryman. Since "the containers were not marked" as to what was" inside, Southwest employee Randy Stroud, 51, advised Woods that Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Security Administration regulations covering biohazard material required him to "see what was in the containers." Upon inspection of the first container, Stroud discovered "a large red Bio Hazard bag...with several items wrapped in large absorbent pads." When Stroud realized the items were human heads, he called airport police. The human remains were bound for the Fort Worth, Texas office of Medtronics, a medical research firm. The heads were later turned over by cops to the Pulaski County Coroner's Office, which is now examining the shipment of the remains, which were picked up by Woods at a private home in Conway. The coroner is investigating the source of the heads.
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0617101heads1.html
I'd make a joke, but can't think of one that won't get me banned here 
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May 20, 2010 - 2:49 PM - by gone
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British supermarket chain Asda said on Thursday that it is to sell cancer drugs at cost-price and called on its peers who make massive profits on the treatments to follow suit.
The group, owned by the world's biggest retailer US supermarket giant Wal-Mart, said its initiative follows the success of a similar scheme by Asda for in-vitro fertility (IVF) treatments.
The move could save cancer sufferers thousands of pounds (dollars) on the cost of treatments that may extend their lives but which are not always available from Britain's free state-run care system -- the National Health Service.
"The crippling cost of paying privately for cancer treatment has forced many people to spend their savings or even re-mortgage their house to pay for these essential drugs," said John Evans, superintendent pharmacist at Asda.
"We are the first retailer to recognise this injustice and to do something about it and we are calling on other retailers to follow our lead.
"It's a small step in the right direction but our permanent 'not for profit' price on cancer treatment drugs makes them more accessible and can save people hundreds if not thousands of pounds."
Asda said the lung cancer drug Iressa will be sold by the chain for 2,167.71 pounds (2,508 euros, 3,102 dollars) for a pack of 30. Some leading pharmacies are selling the same item for more than 3,250 pounds, it claimed.
Asda will also sell at cost price the leukaemia drug Glivec, Nexavar for kidney and liver cancer, as well as Sutent for kidney and stomach tumours.
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May 14, 2010 - 11:32 PM - by RedXIII
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Since BHO can only think with one issue at a time Quanell X aka Islamic Terrorist continues to make local threats against police and the citizens of Bellaire in Houston and daily inciting violence and harboring felons from police...
Before you jump the gun...the cop was found not guilty by a jury of diverse races... the criminal shot by the police was attempting to steal an auto then made threatening moves to provoke being shot
hhttp://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/7002435.html
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May 12, 2010 - 7:51 AM - by loc0001
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Title says it all,
c/p
The West Australian
May 12, 2010, 7:46 am
A television communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of kilometres above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite's orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States, the satellites' owners said on Tuesday.
Communications company Intelsat said it lost control of the Galaxy 15 satellite on April 5, possibly because the satellite's systems were knocked out by a solar storm. Intelsat cannot remotely steer the satellite to remain in its orbit, so Galaxy 15 is creeping toward the adjacent path of another TV communications satellite that serves US cable companies.
Galaxy 15 continues to receive and transmit satellite signals, and they will probably overlap and interfere with signals from the second satellite, known as AMC 11, if Galaxy 15 drifts into its orbit as expected around May 23, according to the two satellite companies.
AMC 11 receives digital programming from cable television channels and transmits it to all US cable systems from its orbit 36,000 kilometres above the equator, SES World Skies said. It operates on the same frequencies as Galaxy 15.
"That fact means that there is likely to be some kind of interference," Yves Feltes, a spokesman for AMC 11 owner SES World Skies, told The Associated Press. "Our aim is to bring any interference down to zero."
He would not name any of the cable television channels or providers that could be affected or say how long the interference could last.
Galaxy 15 is floating over the Pacific Ocean slightly to the east of Hawaii, said Emmet Fletcher, space surveillance and tracking manager for the Space Situational Awareness Program at the European Space Agency, an 18-nation consortium.
Feltes, the SES spokesman, said one option to prevent interference with US television would be using AMC 11's propulsion system to shift that satellite about 100 kilometres away to an orbit that's still within its carefully prescribed "orbital box" but as far away as possible from Galaxy 15.
Both companies said there was no risk of an actual collision between the two satellites in space.
Link below,
hxxp://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/7211832/rogue-satellite-threatens-us-cable-shows/
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