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...I couldn't help but be amused by this... from this website below... cheers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ia-plans-12-foot-statue-of-The-Big-Bogan.html
Town in Australia plans 12-foot statue of 'The Big Bogan'
The shire of Bogan in Australia wants to attract tourists by building a statue of a caricature "bogan", complete with fishing rod, shorts and flip-flops
An artist's impression of the Big Bogan Photo: Bogan Shire Council
By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney
5:02PM BST 08 Apr 2015
A town in Australia wants to attract tourists by erecting a 12-foot statue of a "bogan" - a colloquialism for a stereotypical "bloke" likened to the British term "chav".
The Bogan shire council has long attracted visitors taking photos near signs saying "bogan" but now wants to build a statue of a stereotypical Australian man wearing shorts and a pair of flip-flops and holding a fishing rod alongside an Esky, or ice box, presumably filled with beer.
There had been a proposal to include a beer holder and a cigarette but the plan was abandoned, though the figure may be given a tattoo.
"Bogan has a bit of a negative connotation at times, but we want to get the positive side of it and get any benefit we can out of it for local tourism," said Ray Donald, the mayor.
The term "bogan", used widely in Australia and New Zealand, was included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013 and has also been likened to the American term "white trash".
The dictionary defined the term as a "depreciative term for unfashionable, uncouth, or unsophisticated person, especially of low social status" - though some experts said it does not connote low status.
Australian towns are well-known for installing strange oversized objects as tourist attractions. Popular "big things" across the country include a big banana, a big prawn, a big merino sheep, a big avocado, a big beer can, a big pineapple and a big trout.
The proposal to erect "The Big Bogan" reportedly came from a local clergyman, Reverend Graham McLeod, who believed the local town of Nyngan should install an oversized bogan before another town in Australia did.
"I thought, we better latch onto The Big Bogan," he told The Daily Liberal. "What would happen if Logan in Queensland decided they wanted to build the 'Logan from Bogan' and beat us to it?"
"This gives people another reason to stop. Actually, I'm even hoping we can attract people from overseas to come and sit with The Big Bogan."
The popular website Things Bogans Like says bogans favour cruise ships, personalised number plates, meat lovers' pizzas, commercial radio, theatre restaurants, fad diets, paintball and Shane Warne.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ia-plans-12-foot-statue-of-The-Big-Bogan.html
Town in Australia plans 12-foot statue of 'The Big Bogan'
The shire of Bogan in Australia wants to attract tourists by building a statue of a caricature "bogan", complete with fishing rod, shorts and flip-flops
An artist's impression of the Big Bogan Photo: Bogan Shire Council
By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney
5:02PM BST 08 Apr 2015
A town in Australia wants to attract tourists by erecting a 12-foot statue of a "bogan" - a colloquialism for a stereotypical "bloke" likened to the British term "chav".
The Bogan shire council has long attracted visitors taking photos near signs saying "bogan" but now wants to build a statue of a stereotypical Australian man wearing shorts and a pair of flip-flops and holding a fishing rod alongside an Esky, or ice box, presumably filled with beer.
There had been a proposal to include a beer holder and a cigarette but the plan was abandoned, though the figure may be given a tattoo.
"Bogan has a bit of a negative connotation at times, but we want to get the positive side of it and get any benefit we can out of it for local tourism," said Ray Donald, the mayor.
The term "bogan", used widely in Australia and New Zealand, was included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013 and has also been likened to the American term "white trash".
The dictionary defined the term as a "depreciative term for unfashionable, uncouth, or unsophisticated person, especially of low social status" - though some experts said it does not connote low status.
Australian towns are well-known for installing strange oversized objects as tourist attractions. Popular "big things" across the country include a big banana, a big prawn, a big merino sheep, a big avocado, a big beer can, a big pineapple and a big trout.
The proposal to erect "The Big Bogan" reportedly came from a local clergyman, Reverend Graham McLeod, who believed the local town of Nyngan should install an oversized bogan before another town in Australia did.
"I thought, we better latch onto The Big Bogan," he told The Daily Liberal. "What would happen if Logan in Queensland decided they wanted to build the 'Logan from Bogan' and beat us to it?"
"This gives people another reason to stop. Actually, I'm even hoping we can attract people from overseas to come and sit with The Big Bogan."
The popular website Things Bogans Like says bogans favour cruise ships, personalised number plates, meat lovers' pizzas, commercial radio, theatre restaurants, fad diets, paintball and Shane Warne.
...I found this to be very interesting indeed... it is on this website below... cheers.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/18/...ium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget&?ncid=rss_full
Stanford scientists make leukemia 'grow up' and eat itself
by Andrew Tarantola | @terrortola | March 18th 2015 at 10:33 pm
A team at Stanford's School of Medicine has reportedly uncovered a potent new treatment method for combating one of leukemia's most aggressive forms -- and they did it pretty much by accident. While survival rates for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a particularly nasty form of white blood cell cancer, have risen to about 85 percent over the past decade thanks to the advent of stem cell therapies, the prognosis for this disease in the presence of a Philadelphia chromosome mutation remains quite poor. But thanks to a chance observation by Dr. Scott McClellan, the Stanford team believes it's figured out way to neutralize the disease using its own cancerous cells against it.
The research effort began when, in the lab one day, McClellan noticed that a number of leukemic cells had transformed from cancerous cells into "mature" macrophages. These are a type of immune cell tasked with not only directly consuming cellular debris, pathogens and cancers but also with recruiting other immune cells for the fight. "B-cell leukemia cells are in many ways progenitor cells that are forced to stay in an immature state," Dr. Ravi Majeti, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford, said in a statement. But with the addition of various transcription factors -- proteins capable of latching onto and activating specific DNA sequences -- Majeti and McClellan essentially forced these deadly cancer cells to "grow up" into fully formed macrophages.
What's more, the researchers discovered that this process didn't just neutralize that specific cancer cell. It also instigated the newly made macrophage to begin digesting the cancerous plague and call in the rest of the immune system to actively fight the mutation. "Because the macrophage cells came from the cancer cells, they will already carry with them the chemical signals that will identify the cancer cells, making an immune attack against the cancer more likely," Majeti said. Now that the cellular mechanism is known, the team's next challenge is finding a drug that instigates the same response and can be leveraged as the basis for a new therapy regimen. The team's research appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/18/...ium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget&?ncid=rss_full
Stanford scientists make leukemia 'grow up' and eat itself
A team at Stanford's School of Medicine has reportedly uncovered a potent new treatment method for combating one of leukemia's most aggressive forms -- and they did it pretty much by accident. While survival rates for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a particularly nasty form of white blood cell cancer, have risen to about 85 percent over the past decade thanks to the advent of stem cell therapies, the prognosis for this disease in the presence of a Philadelphia chromosome mutation remains quite poor. But thanks to a chance observation by Dr. Scott McClellan, the Stanford team believes it's figured out way to neutralize the disease using its own cancerous cells against it.
The research effort began when, in the lab one day, McClellan noticed that a number of leukemic cells had transformed from cancerous cells into "mature" macrophages. These are a type of immune cell tasked with not only directly consuming cellular debris, pathogens and cancers but also with recruiting other immune cells for the fight. "B-cell leukemia cells are in many ways progenitor cells that are forced to stay in an immature state," Dr. Ravi Majeti, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford, said in a statement. But with the addition of various transcription factors -- proteins capable of latching onto and activating specific DNA sequences -- Majeti and McClellan essentially forced these deadly cancer cells to "grow up" into fully formed macrophages.
What's more, the researchers discovered that this process didn't just neutralize that specific cancer cell. It also instigated the newly made macrophage to begin digesting the cancerous plague and call in the rest of the immune system to actively fight the mutation. "Because the macrophage cells came from the cancer cells, they will already carry with them the chemical signals that will identify the cancer cells, making an immune attack against the cancer more likely," Majeti said. Now that the cellular mechanism is known, the team's next challenge is finding a drug that instigates the same response and can be leveraged as the basis for a new therapy regimen. The team's research appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Part of the fun and excitement of “The Price is Right” is unveiling what prizes a contestant has the chance to win.
Today, many viewers called out the game show on social media, saying producers were insensitive for offering a woman in a wheelchair the chance to win a treadmill.
The woman won both a sauna and the treadmill, and seemed thrilled.
...I found this to be quite interesting indeed... cheers.
Former inmate of ‘Shawshank’ prison captured after 56 years on the run
http://www.theprovince.com/entertai...ison+captured+after+years/11035116/story.html
An American fugitive who once spent time in an Ohio jail featured in the film The Shawshank Redemption has been recaptured after 56 years on the run.
Frank Freshwaters made his escape in 1959, in a case that bears some similarity to the Oscar-nominated film.
Freshwaters was jailed for violating bail conditions after an earlier conviction for manslaughter for killing a pedestrian with a vehicle in July 1957.
Although the details of his escape have not been disclosed, Freshwaters was said to have gained the trust of prison authorities.
The Shawshank Redemption starred Tim Robbins as a jailed banker who befriended guards and helped the warden launder money, eventually escaping with the proceeds.
Freshwaters was tracked down by cold case investigators to Florida, where he was living under an assumed name and had worked as a lorry driver. They persuaded him to sign some paperwork to obtain his fingerprints so they could confirm his identity and arrest him.
He had earlier been imprisoned at the old Ohio State Reformatory, the prison that was used for filming Shawshank. By the time of his escape, he had been moved to a lower-security site.
The 79-year-old admitted his true identity when authorities confronted him on Monday, police said.
“We couldn’t go with a picture and see if it’s that guy,” said Major Tod Goodyear. “You look different than you do 50 years ago.”
© Copyright (c) The Daily Telegraph
Former inmate of ‘Shawshank’ prison captured after 56 years on the run
http://www.theprovince.com/entertai...ison+captured+after+years/11035116/story.html
An American fugitive who once spent time in an Ohio jail featured in the film The Shawshank Redemption has been recaptured after 56 years on the run.
Frank Freshwaters made his escape in 1959, in a case that bears some similarity to the Oscar-nominated film.
Freshwaters was jailed for violating bail conditions after an earlier conviction for manslaughter for killing a pedestrian with a vehicle in July 1957.
Although the details of his escape have not been disclosed, Freshwaters was said to have gained the trust of prison authorities.
The Shawshank Redemption starred Tim Robbins as a jailed banker who befriended guards and helped the warden launder money, eventually escaping with the proceeds.
Freshwaters was tracked down by cold case investigators to Florida, where he was living under an assumed name and had worked as a lorry driver. They persuaded him to sign some paperwork to obtain his fingerprints so they could confirm his identity and arrest him.
He had earlier been imprisoned at the old Ohio State Reformatory, the prison that was used for filming Shawshank. By the time of his escape, he had been moved to a lower-security site.
The 79-year-old admitted his true identity when authorities confronted him on Monday, police said.
“We couldn’t go with a picture and see if it’s that guy,” said Major Tod Goodyear. “You look different than you do 50 years ago.”
© Copyright (c) The Daily Telegraph
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I don't see why she couldn't 'wheel' on the treadmill. It would be good exercise for her arms.
By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Part of the fun and excitement of “The Price is Right” is unveiling what prizes a contestant has the chance to win.
Today, many viewers called out the game show on social media, saying producers were insensitive for offering a woman in a wheelchair the chance to win a treadmill.
The woman won both a sauna and the treadmill, and seemed thrilled.
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