https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/23 ... r-evesham/fishfoodie wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:39 pmDid they find it in search of somewhere else to dump raw sewage, or were they looking for an example of building standards that last a couple of millenia, & don't start to leak before the grass has started to grow over the trench fill ?
He's going to go down for so long, that his life expectancy will be a rounding error of the full sentence, but he still won't admit that he deserves every single day of that sentence !!FTX founder Bankman-Fried objects to tighter bail, says prosecutors 'sandbagged' him
NEW YORK, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried on Saturday urged a U.S. judge not to ban the indicted FTX cryptocurrency executive from communicating with former colleagues as part of his bail, saying prosecutors "sandbagged" the process to put their client in the "worst possible light."
The lawyers were responding to a Friday night request by federal prosecutors that Bankman-Fried not be allowed to talk with most employees of FTX or his Alameda Research hedge fund without lawyers present, or use the encrypted messaging apps Signal or Slack and potentially delete messages automatically.
Bankman-Fried, 30, has been free on $250 million bond since pleading not guilty to charges of fraud in the looting of billions of dollars from the now-bankrupt FTX.
Prosecutors said their request was in response to Bankman-Fried's recent effort to contact a potential witness against him, the general counsel of an FTX affiliate, and was needed to prevent witness tampering and other obstruction of justice.
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There's a lot of urban myths, legends and rumours swirl around about that song. Here's a few snippets of what's known/ thought to be known:
‘Everything is fake’: how global crime gangs are using UK shell companies in multi-million pound crypto scams
Investigation reveals more than 150 fake firms, many with ties to China, are targeting people online, breaking their hearts – and emptying their bank accounts.
Shanti Das and Niamh McIntyre
Sun 29 Jan 2023 07.00 GMT
A woman meets a man online. They flirt. Then, after a few weeks, they begin imagining a future together. Fast forward a few months and one of them has had their heart broken and been defrauded of their life savings.
It sounds like a classic romance scam, but it isn’t. This is “pig butchering”: a brutal, elaborate and rapidly expanding form of organised crime, often involving criminal syndicates, modern-day slaves and victims around the world.
Since it came to prominence in 2021, the fraud – which involves scammers grooming their victims before stealing huge sums in cryptocurrency – has led to losses of hundreds of millions of pounds and prompted warnings from Interpol and the FBI.
Last month, an inquest heard that one UK victim, a former police officer and father from Wiltshire, took his own life after losing about £100,000 – his entire pension lump sum – in a scam bearing the hallmarks of pig butchering.
Now, an investigation by the Observer and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that global organised crime gangs are using the UK as a virtual base for their operations – systematically exploiting lax company registration laws to carry out fraud on an industrial scale.
Full article at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... ypto-scams
It is indeed a legendary record. Also, it was the first song at my wedding.Sinkers wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:46 amThere's a lot of urban myths, legends and rumours swirl around about that song. Here's a few snippets of what's known/ thought to be known:
In 1965 Frank Wilson was a writer/producer for motown. He supposedly wrote Do I Love You for Chris Clarke to record and had a small number of acetate demos of himself singing it produced on the motown subsidiary Soul.
Later on a guy called Simon Soussan was making his living hunting down rare soul records and in the US and selling them on for profit to Northern Soul DJs back in the UK .
in either 1975 or 1977 he acquired one acetate copy of DILY from the guy in charge of the Motown archives and sent it back to Russ Winstanley to play at Wigan Casino. That copy had the label covered up to keep the details secret and was instead credited to Eddie Foster. It was an instant hit and 500 bootlegs were made pretty soon after.
Winstanley sold his original copy for GBP1,000 in 1978. It's said to have been sold again in 2009 for GBP25K. A second copy was found in about 1991. One of these two (probably the 2nd) is rumoured to have been since been sold for GBP100k.
Also seems that just one test pressing has been found and is owned by the lead singer from the White Stripes or something.
So total - only two acetates and one test pressing known to exist. The two acetates are thought to be in the UK. But the record is massive - see recent cover by Bruce Springsteen.
I'd be more worried about what it's was running from
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64620418Mars Wrigley factory fined after two workers fall into chocolate vat
US workplace safety regulators have fined a Pennsylvania factory after two workers fell into a vat of chocolate and had to be rescued.
The Mars Wrigley factory in the city of Elizabethtown was fined more than $14,500 (£12,000) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The workers were contractors that did not work full time for the factory.
The incident happened in June 2022. A hole had to be cut into the bottom of the partly-full tank to get them out.
More than two dozen rescuers responded, and one worker was transported to hospital by helicopter, according to local reports.
The regulator's report labelled the incident "serious". It says the workers were hired to clean tanks, and were not provided with proper safety training.
Please tell me you were back flipping while suitably attired in baggy flares??robmatic wrote: Wed Feb 01, 2023 9:17 amIt is indeed a legendary record. Also, it was the first song at my wedding.Sinkers wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:46 amThere's a lot of urban myths, legends and rumours swirl around about that song. Here's a few snippets of what's known/ thought to be known:
In 1965 Frank Wilson was a writer/producer for motown. He supposedly wrote Do I Love You for Chris Clarke to record and had a small number of acetate demos of himself singing it produced on the motown subsidiary Soul.
Later on a guy called Simon Soussan was making his living hunting down rare soul records and in the US and selling them on for profit to Northern Soul DJs back in the UK .
in either 1975 or 1977 he acquired one acetate copy of DILY from the guy in charge of the Motown archives and sent it back to Russ Winstanley to play at Wigan Casino. That copy had the label covered up to keep the details secret and was instead credited to Eddie Foster. It was an instant hit and 500 bootlegs were made pretty soon after.
Winstanley sold his original copy for GBP1,000 in 1978. It's said to have been sold again in 2009 for GBP25K. A second copy was found in about 1991. One of these two (probably the 2nd) is rumoured to have been since been sold for GBP100k.
Also seems that just one test pressing has been found and is owned by the lead singer from the White Stripes or something.
So total - only two acetates and one test pressing known to exist. The two acetates are thought to be in the UK. But the record is massive - see recent cover by Bruce Springsteen.
Pet dogs are getting stoned after eating cannabis discarded on the streets of New York, according to veterinarians.
Vets in the city are reporting a surge in cases of confused canines in their surgeries since recreational cannabis was legalised in 2021, The New York Times has reported.
In many cases, the cannabis is in the form of the remnants of joints. But dogs can also be affected by second-hand smoke or by munching gummies and marijuana-laced chocolate
In the past, vets would see one case a month. Now they are treating several dogs a week.
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Sarah Hoggan, an emergency physician from Murrieta California told The Telegraph: “Dogs typically present to us with dilated eyes, tremoring. They look very apprehensive. If you try to pet them, they appear to hallucinate as if a giant hand is coming at them and they cower, as well as leaking urine.”
Part of the problem is caused by dogs having more cannabinoid receptors than human beings, which means even small quantities of the drug are highly toxic.
Jailing directors would work too.fishfoodie wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:58 pm This shit makes me really, really mad !
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64620418Mars Wrigley factory fined after two workers fall into chocolate vat
US workplace safety regulators have fined a Pennsylvania factory after two workers fell into a vat of chocolate and had to be rescued.
The Mars Wrigley factory in the city of Elizabethtown was fined more than $14,500 (£12,000) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The workers were contractors that did not work full time for the factory.
The incident happened in June 2022. A hole had to be cut into the bottom of the partly-full tank to get them out.
More than two dozen rescuers responded, and one worker was transported to hospital by helicopter, according to local reports.
The regulator's report labelled the incident "serious". It says the workers were hired to clean tanks, and were not provided with proper safety training.
In a previous life I was in the factory ERT, & because I'm a short arse; I was part of the, "Confined Space Team".
This is all standard stuff, & OSHA & other industry bodies have really, really clear definitions on this, & how working in these areas requires special training, because they are so often far more dangerous, because it's fundamentally more difficult to get in & out of them.
$15k is a fucking derisory sum of money to fine a company that large, they spend that much on a single mid level executive trip to an off shore factory.
For an incident like that, where the company didn't give 0.00001% of a fuck about the life of a contractor, they should star the fine at, say 10% of the previous years Corporate profits, & if there is a fatality, then it immediately becomes 100% of the previous years profits, etc, etc.
Start to wipe out their profits & they'll start to get serious about human life.
