Canadian photographer Callum
Snape, 23, has captured a series of breathtaking stills using the area’s rugged
terrain as a backdrop. He often spends days hiking to find the perfect place.
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1 November 2014
This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Free money and free erections, Wales.
You had one job! Welsh translation error means Tesco bank
machine customers are offered 'free erections' when they get their cash
The sign on a cash machine at
the Tesco store in Aberystwyth should read 'arian am ddim' which means free
money. But the sign said 'codiad am ddim' which means free erections.
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1 November 2014
The mini marvels that can save you pounds.
Today, we talk you through the new world of the hi-tech home, and show you why you do not need to be an electronics expert to join it.
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1 November 2014
Friday, October 31, 2014
Drone of traffic and chicks.
Chicks can't hear their mothers over the constant drone of
traffic
Research has shown the high
volume of modern city life makes it harder for nestlings to hear their parents.
This puts them at risk of going hungry. And makes them deaf to danger from
predators.
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30 October 2014
Can't pee straight?
Now there's a device which improves men's
aim AND helps detect prostate cancer and diabetes
Aim-Straight, the brainchild of
British pair Michael Shelton and Peter Maxwell, contains reagents which react
to blood, protein and glucose in urine, changing colour to alert to the signs
of diabetes and prostate cancer.
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29 October 2014
Goodbye to Golden goodbyes in the NHS, UK.
'Golden goodbyes' for NHS managers to be clawed back if they
return to health service ...but only if they don't get a job for a year
Treasury minister Danny
Alexander vowed to end the revolving door of highly-paid administrators handed
golden goodbyes worth thousands of pounds before walking straight into another
role.
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29 October 2014
Pathologists can conduct full post mortems using a computer mouse.
Sandwell Council in the West
Midlands will become the first in Britain to offer revolutionary digital
autopsies for free (an example is pictured).
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29 October 2014
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